Latin

committō

‘to practise or perpetrate wrong, do injustice’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Latin committō.

12 English words in this record descend from Latin committō, most familiar first.

• committee ← commite
• commission ← commissioun ← commissiō
• commit ← committen
• commissary ← commissarius ← commissus
• commissar ← комисса́р ← Kommissar ← commissarius ← commissus
• commissariat ← commissaire ← commissiōnārius ← commissiō
• commissaire ← commissiōnārius ← commissiō
• commissure ← commissura ← commissus
• commissionaire ← commissio
• committable ← committen
• commissionnaire ← commissio
• fideicommissum ← fidei

Etymograph / Latin committō