commissaire

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French commissaire.

Noun

commissaire (plural commissaires)

(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/
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Noun

commissaire m or f by sense (plural commissaires)

commissioner
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.

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