commeatus

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

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

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

1. perfect passive participle of commeō

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

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

• 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

• “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