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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Comitia \Co*mi"ti*a\, n. pl. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws. [1913 Webster] Note: There were three kinds of comitia: comitia curiata, or assembly of the patricians, who voted in curi[ae]; comitia centuriata, or assembly of the whole Roman people, who voted by centuries; and comitia tributa, or assembly of the plebeians according to their division into tribes. [1913 Webster]