commissaire
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French commissaire.
Noun edit
commissaire (plural commissaires)
French edit
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
Further reading edit
- “commissaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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