committee

English

Alternative forms

• cttee (contraction)
• cmte (contraction)

Etymology

From commit +‎ -ee, else revival of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman commite, past participle of commettre (“to commit”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin committere, from con- (“with”) + mittere (“to send”). The OED3 prefers the first etymology.

Pronunciation

group of persons

• enPR: kə-mĭtʹē, IPA^(key): [kəˈmɪt.i]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪti

person in charge of another

• IPA^(key): [kɒmɪˈtiː]
• Rhymes: -iː
• enPR: käm-ĭ-tēʹ, IPA^(key): [kɑmɪˈtiː]
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

committee (plural committees)

1. A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols.
2. (archaic) A guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after himself or herself.

Hyponyms

• program committee

Derived terms

• by committee
• committeeing
• committeeman
• committeepeople
• committeeperson
• committeeship
• committeewoman
• executive committee
• executive committee
• exploratory committee
• multicommittee
• standing committee
• subcommittee
• vigilance committee

 

Descendants

• → French: comité (see there for further descendants)

Translations

group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose

• Albanian: komitet (sq) m
• Arabic: لَجْنَة f (lajna)
• Armenian: հանձնախումբ (hy) (hanjnaxumb), կոմիտե (hy) (komite), հանձնաժողով (hy) (hanjnažoġov)
• Azerbaijani: komitə
• Belarusian: камітэ́т m (kamitét)
• Bulgarian: комите́т (bg) m (komitét), коми́сия (bg) f (komísija)
• Burmese: ကော်မတီ (my) (kauma.ti)
• Catalan: comitè (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 委員會／委员会 (zh) (wěiyuánhuì), 委员会 (zh) (wěiyuánhuì)

• Czech: výbor (cs) m, komise (cs) f
• Danish: komité c, komite c
• Dutch: comité (nl) n
• Estonian: komitee
• Faroese: nevnd f
• Finnish: komitea (fi), valiokunta (fi), toimikunta (fi)
• French: comité (fr) m, commission (fr) f
• Georgian: კომიტეტი (ḳomiṭeṭi)
• German: Komitee (de) n, Ausschuß (de) m
• Hebrew: וְעָדָה f (v'adá)
• Hindi: समिति (hi) f (samiti), कमेटी (hi) f (kameṭī)
• Hungarian: bizottság (hu)
• Icelandic: nefnd (is) f
• Indonesian: komite (id), panitia (id), panitera (id)
• Interlingua: committee
• Irish: coiste m
• Italian: comitato (it) m
• Japanese: 委員会 (ja) (いいんかい, iinkai)
• Kazakh: комитет (komitet)
• Khmer: គណៈកម្មាធិការ (km) (kĕəʼnaʼ kammaathikaa), គណៈកម្មការ (km) (kĕəʼnaʼ kamkɑɑ)
• Korean: 위원회 (ko) (wiwonhoe) (委員會 (ko))
• Kurdish: , , ,
• Kyrgyz: комитет (ky) (komitet)
• Lao: ຄະນະກຳມະການ (lo) (kha na kam ma kān)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: consilium n
• Latvian: komiteja f
• Lithuanian: komitetas (lt) m
• Macedonian: комитет m (komitet)
• Malay: jawatankuasa, panitia, komite, komiti, lajnah
• Malaysian Sign Language: jawatankuasa
• Maori: komiti
• Norman: conmité m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: komité (no) m, komite (no) m

  Nynorsk: komité m, komite m

• Persian: کمیته (fa) (komite)
• Polish: komitet (pl) m
• Portuguese: comité (pt) m, comitê (pt) m, comissão (pt) f
• Romanian: comitet (ro) n
• Russian: комите́т (ru) m (komitét), коми́ссия (ru) f (komíssija)
• Scottish Gaelic: comataidh f
• Serbo-Croatian: odbor (sh) n

  Cyrillic: комитет m, часништво n, одбор m

  Roman: komitet (sh) m, časništvo (sh) n, odbor (sh) m

• Slovak: výbor m, komisia f
• Slovene: komite m, odbor m
• Spanish: comité (es) m
• Swahili: kamati (sw)
• Swedish: nämnd (sv) c, kommitté (sv) c, utskott (sv) n
• Tajik: комитет (komitet)
• Thai: คณะกรรมการ (ká-ná-gam-má-gaan)
• Turkish: kurul (tr), komite (tr)
• Turkmen: komitet
• Ukrainian: коміте́т (uk) m (komitét)
• Urdu: کمیٹی f (kameṭī)
• Uzbek: komitet (uz)
• Vietnamese: uỷ ban (vi)
• Volapük: komitetanef (vo)
• Yiddish: קאָמיטעט m (komitet)

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