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The Record Interpreter.
  • columbare:—a dovecote.
  • columbaria:—putlog holes.
  • culumbarius:—a keeper of pigeons.
  • columbella:—a pigeon.
  • colustrum:—new milk.
  • comba:—a combe, valley.
  • combuslio:—trial of money at the Exchequer.
  • comes:—an ealdorman; a count; an earl.
  • comestio:—dinner.
  • comitatio, comitatus:— a county; a county court.
  • comitiva:—a company.
  • commandare. See commendare.
  • commarchia:—a frontier.
  • commater, cemmatrix:—used for the relationship between one who has held a child at baptism and the mother, O. E. gomm; a godmother.
  • commenda:—a, deposit; when a benefice is given to a layman, or to a clerk for a time, it is said to be given in commendam; a commandry, a benefice in the order of the knights of St. John.
  • commendare:—to lend, to deposit; to order; to put oneself under the protection of another.
  • commendatarius:—one who holds a living in commendam.
  • commendatitius:—of commendation, esp. literæ.
  • commendatus:—a person who puts himself under the protection of his superior by doing voluntary homage.
  • commensale:—board; diet; commons.
  • commensalis:—a fellow-boarder, fellow-commoner.
  • commensare:—to begin.
  • commissarius:—a commissary, one who exercises spiritual jurisdiction by commission of a bishop.
  • commissio:—a commission.
  • commissionarias:—one who acts by commission; a commissioner.
  • commonitio: - summons.
  • commorancia:—dwelling, residence.
  • commothum:—a commote, a quarter, or some say a half of a cantred.
  • communa:—common land or property; right of common; commons; a community; a fiscal regulation.
  • communantia:—the communance, the folk having the right of common.
  • communare: —to enjoy the right of common.
  • communaris:-—a fellow-citizen.
  • communarius, communiarius:—a commoner.
  • commnunes:—commons at a college or Inn of Court.
  • communia:—a corporation or community.
  • communia (pl.):—commonalty; commons; ordinary business of a court.
  • communia:—commons.
  • communiare:—to have right of common.