Translation
companion, comrade; count, earl
Examples
fidelis mecum .
A faithful companion came with me.
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He was looking for a companion for the journey.
manserunt.
The companions stayed on the road.
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The king called his companion to him.
comite .
He made the long journey without a companion.
Comes, comitis is third declension and common gender, masculine or feminine as the person requires. Take it apart and it is transparent: cum plus a worn-down form of eo, "one who goes with". The person accompanied goes in the genitive or dative - comes itineris, "companion of the journey".
Then the empire happened to it. A comes was first a member of the emperor's travelling retinue, then an official with a portfolio, and by the Frankish period a territorial lord: the count, the earl, the comte, the conde. Comitatus, his patch, becomes the English county. So a comes in a classical text is a friend on the road and a comes in a charter is a nobleman, and the corpus here has plenty of both.
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