comitia Meaning, Definition & Usage

plural

(Rom. Antiq.) A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws. ✍ There were three kinds of comitia: comitia curiata, or assembly of the patricians, who voted in curiæ; 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.