comissari

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin comissarius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ku.miˈsa.ɾi]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ko.miˈsa.ɾi]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

comissari m (plural comissaris, feminine comissària, feminine plural comissàries)

1. commissioner

Derived terms

• comissaria

Further reading

• “comissari”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “comissari”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “comissari” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “comissari” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [koː.mɪsˈsaː.riː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ko.misˈsaː.ri]

Verb

cōmissārī

1. present active infinitive of cōmissor

Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

Noun

comissari m (plural comissaris) (Limousin)

1. (law enforcement) superintendent
   • 2014, Joan Ganhaire, Un tant doç fogier, 2017, IEO Edicions/novelum - IEO, Toulouse/Périgueux, page 119

     Lo comissari ranconhat dins son vielh fautuelh disiá pas fava.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• comissariat