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Merriam Webster's

noun (plural comitia) Etymology: Latin, plural of comitium, from com- + -it- (akin to ire to go) — more at issue Date: 1600 any of several public assemblies of the people in ancient Rome for legislative, judicial, and electoral purposes • comitial adjective

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Comitia Co*mi"ti*a, n. pl. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws. Note: There were three kinds of comitia: comitia curiata, or assembly of the patricians, who voted in curi[ae]; comitia centuriata, or assembly of the whole Roman people, who voted by centuries; and comitia tributa, or assembly of the plebeians according to their division into tribes.