commissaire

Borrowed from French commissaire. Doublet of commissary and commissar.

commissaire (plural commissaires)

1. (cycling) The judge of a bicycle race.

Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin commissiōnārius, from Latin commissiō.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mi.sɛʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

commissaire m or f by sense (plural commissaires)

1. commissioner
2. chief of police, head of police, superintendent

• commissariat

• → English: commissaire
• → Ottoman Turkish: قومیسر
  • Turkish: komiser
• → Romanian: comisar m
• → Tamil: குமுசியார் (kumuciyār)

• “commissaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.