comitiva

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Italian comitivabor.

English comitiva

Borrowed from Italian comitiva.

Noun

comitiva

1. (historical) A band of brigands in Italy or Sicily.

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin comitīva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ku.miˈti.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ko.miˈti.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ko.miˈti.va]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

comitiva f (plural comitives)

1. suite, retinue

   Synonym: seguici

2. group

Related terms

• comte

Further reading

• “comitiva”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “comitiva”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “comitiva” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “comitiva”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Galician

Noun

comitiva f (plural comitivas)

1. company, covey

Italian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin comitīva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.miˈti.va/
• Rhymes: -iva
• Hyphenation: co‧mi‧tì‧va

Noun

comitiva f (plural comitive)

1. group, party, company, covey

Further reading

• comitiva in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• comitiva in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin comitīva, from comitāre (“to accompany”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.miˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.miˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.miˈt͡ʃi.va/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.miˈti.vɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.miˈti.vɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.miˈti.bɐ/ [ku.miˈti.βɐ]

• Hyphenation: co‧mi‧ti‧va

Noun

comitiva f (plural comitivas)

1. company, covey; entourage

Further reading

• “comitiva”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “comitiva”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komiˈtiba/ [ko.miˈt̪i.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -iba
• Syllabification: co‧mi‧ti‧va

Noun

comitiva f (plural comitivas)

1. company, covey, retinue

   Synonyms: séquito, escolta

2. cortege
3. train (group of wagons)

Further reading

• “comitiva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025