Accompanying or occurring together with something else; attendant or concomitant.
From Latin comitans, present participle of comitari meaning 'to accompany,' derived from comes 'companion.' The word traveled through Medieval Latin into English, maintaining its sense of something that travels alongside.
This word is a linguistic cousin to 'comity' and 'committee'—they all trace back to the Latin comes, originally meaning a fellow traveler or attendant to a Roman official. Medieval European nobility actually used the ranking system of comes (count), showing how the concept of 'accompanying' evolved into 'holding official position.'
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