comité

/komiˈte/ · B1 · noun · m

committee

comité = committee with the double letters dropped and the stress on the end: ko-mi-TE

English took committee from Latin committere, to entrust. French then took it back as comité, and Spanish took it from French. A committee is a group that has been entrusted with a task. It is masculine: el comité.

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