commissaire
French
noun
Definitions
- commissioner
- chief of police, head of police, superintendent
Etymology
Derived from Latin commissionarius, commissio (sending together, commission).
Origin
Latin
commissio
Gloss
sending together, commission
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- commissaire English
- commissarius Latin
- commissio Latin
- commissionarius Latin
- Kommissar German
- commission French
- комиссия Russian
- kommisjon Norwegian Bokmål
- kommissær Norwegian Bokmål
- kommisjon Norwegian Nynorsk
- kommissær Norwegian Nynorsk
- commission Old French
- cẩm Vietnamese