commissio

Latin

Etymology

From prefix com- (“with”), + noun of action missio (“sending”), from perfect passive participle missus (“sent”), from the verb mittō (“to send”), + noun of action suffix -io.

Noun

commissiō f (genitive commissiōnis); third declension

1. commission

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	commissiō	commissiōnēs
Genitive	commissiōnis	commissiōnum
Dative	commissiōnī	commissiōnibus
Accusative	commissiōnem	commissiōnēs
Ablative	commissiōne	commissiōnibus
Vocative	commissiō	commissiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: comissió
• English: commission
• French: commission
• Irish: coimisiún
• Italian: commissione

• Portuguese: comissão
• Romanian: comisie
• Russian: коми́ссия (komíssija)
• Spanish: comisión

References

• “commissio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commissio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commissio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• commissio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.