commeatus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kom.meˈaː.tus/, [kɔmːeˈäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom.meˈa.tus/, [komːeˈäːt̪us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of commeō (“to go to and fro, frequent”).

Participle

commeātus (feminine commeāta, neuter commeātum); first/second-declension participle

1. perfect passive participle of commeō

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	commeātus	commeāta	commeātum		commeātī	commeātae	commeāta
genitive	commeātī	commeātae	commeātī		commeātōrum	commeātārum	commeātōrum
dative	commeātō	commeātae	commeātō		commeātīs
accusative	commeātum	commeātam	commeātum		commeātōs	commeātās	commeāta
ablative	commeātō	commeātā	commeātō		commeātīs
vocative	commeāte	commeāta	commeātum		commeātī	commeātae	commeāta

Etymology 2

From commeō (“to go to and fro, frequent”) +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

Noun

commeātus m (genitive commeātūs); fourth declension

1. supplies, provisions

   Synonym: annōna

2. goods

   Synonyms: sarcina, impedimentum

3. convoy, caravan
4. furlough, leave of absence

   Synonym: missio

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	commeātus	commeātūs
genitive	commeātūs	commeātuum
dative	commeātuī	commeātibus
accusative	commeātum	commeātūs
ablative	commeātū	commeātibus
vocative	commeātus	commeātūs

Descendants

• Catalan: comiat
• Italian: commiato
• Old French: congiet, congié
  • Middle French: congé, congié
    • French: congé
      • → Dutch: congé
  • → Middle English: congie
    • English: congee
  • → Italian: congedo
• Old Occitan: comjat, comiat, comnhat
  • Occitan: comjat, conjat

References

• “commeatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commeatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commeatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• commeatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to cut off all supplies of the enemy: intercludere, prohibere hostes commeatu
    
  • (ambiguous) to give furlough, leave of absence to soldiers: commeatum militibus dare (opp. petere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to cut off the supplies, intercept them: intercludere commeatum