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Komisaruk

Komisaruk comes from Ukrainian комісар ‘commissar’, and goes back to Latin mittō ‘to send’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō‘to send’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommittō‘to commit, entrust to’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommissus‘committed, having been committed’past participle of committō
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommissārius
  5. Ukrainianmodernкомісарkomisar‘commissar’
  6. Ukrainian, derivedmodernКомісарукKomisaruk
  7. EnglishtodayKomisaruk

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō‘to send’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommittō‘to commit, entrust to’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommissus‘committed, having been committed’past participle of committō
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcommissārius
  5. Ukrainianmodernкомісарkomisar‘commissar’
  6. Ukrainian, derivedmodernКомісарукKomisaruk
  7. EnglishtodayKomisaruk

Linked words

through Proto-Italic *meitō ‘to put forth, put out’

remission, unremitting, 19 more

through Old Latin mītō

permission, transmission, admission, submission, emission, remit, omission, 21 more

through Latin mittō ‘to send’

mess, mission, admit, missile, transmit, dismiss, premise, intermittent, emit, amit, omit, permissive, remiss, missive, 32 more

through Latin committō ‘to commit, entrust to’

committee, commission, commit, commissariat, 6 more

through Latin commissārius

commissary, commissar, 1 more

Today it means

name A surname from Ukrainian.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin mittō / Komisaruk