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"committee" in seven languages

Meaningcommittee

Spanish

comité

/komiˈte/

masc.borrowed · French comité

French

comité

/kɔmite/

masc.borrowed · English committee

Italian

comitato

/komiˈtato/

masc.borrowed · French comité, adapted with -ato

Portuguese

comitê

/komiˈte/

masc.borrowed · French comité

Romanian

comitet

/komiˈtet/

neut.borrowed · French comité (partly via Russian komitet)

Catalan

comitè

/kumiˈtɛ/

masc.borrowed · French comité

English

committee

/kəˈmɪti/

from Latin/French · built in English on commit (Latin COMMITTERE)

English → ItaliancommitteecomitatoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

COMMITTERE‘to bring together, to entrust’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

A boomerang: English made committee from commit, French borrowed it as comité, and Spanish and Italian took it from French.

English relatives: commit, commission, committee

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In a sentence

  • esEl comité se reúne los lunes.
  • frLe comité se réunit le lundi.
  • itIl comitato si riunisce il lunedì.
  • ptO comitê se reúne às segundas.
  • roComitetul se întrunește lunea.
  • caEl comitè es reuneix els dilluns.
  • enThe committee meets on Mondays.

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