“ COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pagus or district) , a mess-mate or “comrade” (a term which itself has a similar origin, meaning one who shares the same camera or room) . “Companion” is particularly used of soldiers, as in the expression “companion in arms,” and so is the title of the lowest rank in a military or other order of knighthood ”