Translation
to commission, to entrust with a task
Word origin
From Latin committere, 'to entrust, to put together', through the noun commissio. English commission, commit and mission all sit on the same mittere, 'to send'.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- committere
- English cognates
- commission, commit, mission
Examples
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The town commissioned a new bridge from him.
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They entrusted me with writing the report.
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Who commissioned that job?
takes the person as its object and the job as a second complement: or . Both patterns are current, and the second reads more naturally when the task is a thing rather than a duty. The noun komisio is the task or the commission itself, while the committee sense is - a distinction English blurs and Esperanto does not.
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