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''Communis'' comes from a combination of the Latin prefix ''com-'' (which means "together") and the word ''munis'' probably originally derived from the [[Etruscan]] word ''munis-'' (meaning "to have the charge of"). [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/4060/dictionnaire_etrusque.htm Etruscan Etymological Glossary]
''Communis'' comes from a combination of the Latin prefix ''com-'' (which means "together") and the word ''munis'' probably originally derived from the [[Etruscan]] word ''munis-'' (meaning "to have the charge of"). [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/4060/dictionnaire_etrusque.htm Etruscan Etymological Glossary]
a. OF. com(m)uneté, com(m)unité:{em}L. comm{umac}nit{amac}t-em, f. comm{umac}n-is COMMON. ME. had two forms, the trisyllabic comunete, comounté (see COMMONTY), and the 4-syllabic co(m)munité, which remained in closer formal connexion with the original Latin type. The L. word was merely a noun of quality from comm{umac}nis, meaning ‘fellowship, community of relations or feelings’; but in med.L. it was, like universitas, used concretely in the sense of ‘a body of fellows or fellow-townsmen’, ‘universitas incolarum urbis vel oppidi,’ and this was its earlier use in English: see II.]
*I. As a quality or state.
*I. As a quality or state.
:6. The body of those having common or equal rights or rank, as distinguished from the privileged classes; the body of commons; the commonalty.
:6. The body of those having common or equal rights or rank, as distinguished from the privileged classes; the body of commons; the commonalty.
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:7. A body of people organized into a political, municipal, or social unity: a. A state or commonwealth.
:7. A body of people organized into a political, municipal, or social unity: a. A state or commonwealth.
