Why this word is great
COMITADJI — [Noun] A member of an irregular armed band operating under the aegis of a revolutionary committee, particularly in the fractious history of the Balkan peninsula. From Balkan languages, from Ottoman Turkish قومیتهجی (komitacı), from قومیته (komita, "committee", from French comité) + the agent suffix ـجی (-cı, "-er"). Unlike "partisan," a general term for a resistance fighter, or "guerrilla," a practitioner of asymmetrical war, the comitadji is defined by his nominal, almost bureaucratic, subordination to a shadowy, cell-like political *komita*—a formal idea giving license to informal violence. He is the figure in a worn *feredža* waiting at a mountain pass, the hand that nails a proclamation to a village church door by night, the anonymous trigger-pull in a Sarajevo sidestreet that echoes into world war. He fought not for a front line, but for an idea of a nation not yet born—a ghost soldier serving ghost authorities.