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Latin
Etymology
From con- (“co-”) + mīles (“soldier”) (stem mīlit-) + -ium (“-ship”, noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
commīlitium n (genitive commīlitiī or commīlitī); second declension
- comradeship, companionship in war
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “commilitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “commilitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers