LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adverb

comminus

comminus (not comparable)
Classical[ˈkɔm.mɪ.nʊs]Ecclesiastical[ˈkɔm.mi.nus]

Meaning

  1. not comparablein close combat, in close contest, hand-to-hand, in melee
    at postquam virtūs annīs adolēvit, in aprōsBut after his valor has matured with his years, he dares to engage in close combat with boars and shaggy lionesses. (See Hyas.)8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.175–176
  2. not comparableclose up or at hand, near to; immediately

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Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

eminus hastis, comminus gladiis uti
to use javelins at a distance, swords at close quarters.
gladio comminus (opp. eminus) rem gerere
to fight with swords at close quarters.

com-mĭnus (less correctly cōmĭ-nus), adv. manus; cf. Beda, Orth. p. 2331 P.; Fronto, Diff. p. 2193 ib.; orig. belonging to milit. lang., of conflict,
I. in close contest, hand to hand (with the sword, etc.), Gr. συσταδόν; opp. eminus, also to missilia, sagittae, etc. (class.; most freq. in the histt.): quae mea comminus machaera atque hasta hostibit e manu, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 270, 29 Müll.: nec eminus hastis aut comminus gladiis uteretur, Cic. Sen. 6, 19; Ov. M. 3, 119: undique ex insidiis barbari a fronte ab tergo coörti comminus eminus petunt, Liv. 21, 34, 6; 31, 24, 15; Tac. A. 6, 35; 15, 4; App. M. 5, p. 164, 1: neque ictu comminus neque conjectione telorum (pulsi), Cic. Caecin. 15, 43: jacula inutilia esse ... gladio comminus geri rem, Liv. 44, 35, 12: dum locus comminus pugnandi daretur, Caes. B. C. 1, 58: veterani... comminus acriter instare, Sall. C. 60, 3; Liv. 27, 18, 14: conferre signa, id. 1, 33, 4: conferre vires, id. 42, 47, 8: adversus resistentes niti, Tac. A. 4, 51: trucidato hostium duce, Suet. Tib. 3.—
2. Poet., of copulation, Lucr. 4, 1051; of fighting, Stat. Th. 10, 213; App. M. 2, p. 122, 14.—
B. Trop.: sed haec fuerit nobis tamquam levis armaturae prima orationis excursio: nunc comminus agamus, Cic. Div. 2, 10, 26: qui me epistulā petivit, ad te, ut video, comminus accessit, has approached you in person, id. Att. 2, 2, 2: in apros ire, Ov. F. 5, 176; cf.: agrestes comminus ire sues (for in sues), Prop. 2 (3), 19, 22. and so also of game: cervos obtruncant ferro, Verg. G. 3, 374; and of the preparation of the soil (considered as a contest with the same): jacto qui semine comminus arva Insequitur, i. e. manu sive rastro urget, exercet, id. ib. 1, 104; cf. App. M. 2, p. 117, 16; Hand, Turs. II. p. 96.—
II. In gen., without the access. idea of contest, nigh at hand, near to, near, = prope, in or ex propinquo (not freq. before the Aug. per.): prius Eminus ardescunt quam comminus imbuat ignis, Lucr. 6, 904: aspicit hirsutos comminus ursa Getas, Ov. P. 1, 5, 74; Tac. A. 12, 12: viso comminus armatorum agmine, id. H. 1, 41; id. G. 8: sole per eos dies comminus facto, Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 55: aliquid comminus judicantur, near at hand, i.e. by the eyesight, Plin. 11, 42, 97, § 240; 35, 3, 6, § 17: recipere a debitore suo pecuniam, Dig. 13, 7, 3.—
B. Transf., of time, immediately, = statim, sine intermissione; a very common provincialism in Cisalpine Gaul, acc. to Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 104.—
III. In postAug. poetry sometimes = ad manus, at hand: comminus arma habere, Val. Fl. 5, 583.

Origins

From con- (“with, together”) + manus (“hand”).

Quick answers

What does comminus mean in Latin?
comminus, a adverb, means “in close combat, in close contest, hand-to-hand, in melee; close up or at hand, near to; immediately”.
How do you pronounce comminus?
In classical Latin, [ˈkɔm.mɪ.nʊs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈkɔm.mi.nus].