commissaire

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French commissaire.

Noun

commissaire (plural commissaires)

1. (cycling) The judge of a bicycle race.

French

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin commissiōnārius, from Latin commissiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mi.sɛʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

commissaire m or f by sense (plural commissaires)

1. commissioner
2. chief of police, head of police, superintendent

Related terms

• commissariat

Descendants

• → English: commissaire
• → Ottoman Turkish: قومیسر
  • Turkish: komiser

Further reading

• “commissaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.