English → Latin
“cortege” in Latin
comitorto join someone as an attendant; accompany, attend, follow; guard, escort; serve; to attend someone to the grave, attendcomesa companion, comrade, partner, associate; an attendant, a servant; a count, an earlcohorsa court; a farmyard or enclosure; a retinue or escortasseculafollower; attendant, servant; sycophantstīpātiōcrowd, throng; retinue
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cortege
comitatus: comites (general terms for companions, attendants on a journey, etc.): cohors: asseclae (suite: cohors especially of a governor going out to his province): stipatio, stipatores corporis (for security). Also circumlocution, qui eunt or proficiscuntur cum aliquo: qui sunt cum aliquo; quos aliquis secum ducit, qui aliquem sequuntur, comitantur: to be seen in anybody’s cortege, inter comites ducis aspici: to belong to the cortege of a pretor, asseclam praetoris esse: to join anybody’s cortege, se comitem alicui adjungere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cortege?
- The usual Latin words for “cortege” are comitor, comes, cohors; also assecula, stīpātiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.