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/kɔ.mi.sɛʁ/
Translation
police superintendent; commissioner
Word origin
From Medieval Latin commissarius ('one to whom something is entrusted'), from Latin committere ('to entrust, to commit'). English 'commissioner' and 'commissary' come from the same Latin word.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- commissarius
- English cognates
- commissioner, commissary, commit
Grammar
Examples
l' .
The superintendent has been leading the investigation from the start.
banlieue.
She is a superintendent at a small suburban police station.
européen l'agriculture répondu aux .
The European commissioner for agriculture answered the journalists.
.
The officers are waiting for the superintendent's orders.
' parisien.
This novel tells the cases of an old Parisian superintendent.
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