Talk:committee

Pronunciation (homographs)
The archaic sense is pronounced with the word stress and a 'lee' sound on the last syllable.zigzig20s 21:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Etymology
Under what circumstances is comité the past participle of commettre? Wouldn't it just be commis (or more likely, cometre and comis). Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub gives comité as a variant of conté, meaning county. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:51, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

I think this mixes up comité with commit + -ee (= whom something is committed to). Etymonline says "from commit + -ee, or else a revival of Anglo-Fr. commite, pp. of commettre". Note the double m in commite. commite strikes me as odd, why wouldn't it be commis/e, but if they say so... comité can also be from Latin comitas (courteousness, friendliness) -- no idea if this plays any role here.


 * I don't know Old French or much Latin but I can tell you this word looks and sounds like Latin "comitia," which means an assembly convened to pass legislation or hold elections! Wiktionary does not say that "comitia" is related to "comitas" however. Anyone know what the deal with that is?  76.126.232.191 11:54, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

"contraction"?
I think that's an abbreviation:

committee = https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=committee&oldid=51497238 (currently) --User123o987name (talk) 08:18, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

etymology
15th Century: from [[committen] to entrust + -ee] --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:26, 27 October 2020 (UTC)