Why this word is great
COMITIA — [Noun] A popular legislative assembly in ancient Rome, convened to enact laws or elect magistrates. From Latin comitium ("assembly"), derived from com- ("with, together") + the root of ire ("to go"). Unlike the "senate" (an aristocratic chamber of elders) or "concilium" (any gathering, sacred or secular), comitia were the structured, democratic pulse of the Republic. Picture the Forum at dawn, the plebs clustering like starlings; the wooden voting bridges creaking under sandaled feet; the herald’s voice cutting through the murmur of a thousand citizens deciding a consul’s fate. For a moment, before empire, before silence, Rome belonged to the many.