comitor
Latin
Etymology
From comes (“companion, comrade”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɔ.mɪ.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔː.mi.t̪or]
Verb
comitor (present infinitive comitārī, perfect active comitātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to join someone as an attendant; accompany, attend, follow; guard, escort; serve
- to attend someone to the grave, attend a funeral
Usage notes
Used with an accusative construction, an ablative absolute or, with abstract subjects, the dative (in the sense of attending certain circumstances or qualities).
Conjugation
Conjugation of comitor (first conjugation, deponent)
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | comitor | comitāris, comitāre |
comitātur | comitāmur | comitāminī | comitantur | ||||||
| imperfect | comitābar | comitābāris, comitābāre |
comitābātur | comitābāmur | comitābāminī | comitābantur | |||||||
| future | comitābor | comitāberis, comitābere |
comitābitur | comitābimur | comitābiminī | comitābuntur | |||||||
| perfect | comitātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | comitātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| future perfect | comitātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | comiter | comitēris, comitēre |
comitētur | comitēmur | comitēminī | comitentur | ||||||
| imperfect | comitārer | comitārēris, comitārēre |
comitārētur | comitārēmur | comitārēminī | comitārentur | |||||||
| perfect | comitātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | comitātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | comitāre | — | — | comitāminī | — | ||||||
| future | — | comitātor | comitātor | — | — | comitantor | |||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | comitārī | — | comitāns | — | |||||||||
| future | comitātūrum esse | — | comitātūrus | comitandus | |||||||||
| perfect | comitātum esse | — | comitātus | — | |||||||||
| future perfect | comitātum fore | — | — | — | |||||||||
| perfect potential | comitātūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| comitandī | comitandō | comitandum | comitandō | comitātum | comitātū | ||||||||
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- English: comitatus
References
- “comitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “comitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- comitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.