The story
- Latin · derived fromcommissarius
- German · derived fromKommissar“commissioner”
- Russian · borrowed fromкомисса́р
- English todaycommissar
Borrowed from Russian комисса́р (komissár), from German Kommissar (“commissioner”), from Latin commissarius, from commissus, past participle of committō (“to commit, entrust to”). Doublet of commissary.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.