comunalte

• communalte, communaute
• comminalte, cominalte, commalte, comnalte, comonalte, comynalte (Late Middle English)
• comownate, comwnawte (Early Scots)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman comunalte, comunaute, probably from an alteration of communité, from Latin commūnitās; by surface analysis, comunal +‎ -te. Compare comunalite.

• IPA^(key): /kɔˌmiu̯nalˈteː/, /kɔˈmiu̯nalteː/, /-au̯-/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔmunalteː/, /ˈkɔm(ə)nalteː/ (remodelled after initial-stress variants of comun)

comunalte (uncountable)

1. A national, regional, or municipal community.
2. The members of a guild or brotherhood.
3. (England, rare) The medieval House of Commons.
4. (Christianity, theology, rare) The communion of saints; the body of Christian believers.

• English: commonalty
• Middle Scots: commonatie, communate; commonaltye, commouneltie

• “commū̆naltẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.