commissaire
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French commissaire.
Noun
[edit]commissaire (plural commissaires)
French
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Etymology
[edit]Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin commissiōnārius, from Latin commissiō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]commissaire m or f by sense (plural commissaires)
- commissioner
- chief of police, head of police, superintendent
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: commissaire
- → Ottoman Turkish: قومیسر
- Turkish: komiser
- → Tamil: குமுசியார் (kumuciyār)
Further reading
[edit]- “commissaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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