comitia

American  

[kuh-mish-ee-uh] / kəˈmɪʃ i ə /

noun

Roman History.

1. an assembly of the people convened to pass on laws, nominate magistrates, etc.

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comitia British  

/ kəˈmɪʃəl, kəˈmɪʃɪə /

noun

1. an ancient Roman assembly that elected officials and exercised judicial and legislative authority

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Other Word Forms

• comitial adjective

Etymology

Origin of comitia

1615–25; < Latin, plural of comitium assembly, equivalent to com- com- + -it-, noun derivative of īre to go ( cf. comes) + -ium -ium

Example Sentences

Gracchus stringently enforced the limitation of the freedmen to the four city tribes, which completely destroyed their influence in the comitia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

Beyond question, however, they were included in the curiae and had the right to vote in the comitia curiata.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

The speech Pro C. Rabirio perduellionis reo was delivered on behalf of Rabirius, charged before the comitia with the murder of the tribune Saturninus in B.C.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George

From this time on, too, the comitia tributa, now embracing all the tribes, the rural as well as the urban, was a regular institution of the state.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

From a very early date the Roman people were divided into thirty groups called curiae, and these curiae served as the units in the organization of the oldest popular assembly—the comitia curiata.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly