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1. (obsolete) A deputy or clerk of a foreign official.
2. (chiefly in combination) An assistant to a chef.

• SimCom, momics, sim-com

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• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mi/

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1. commercial

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1. clerk
2. shop assistant; salesclerk

• grand commis

commis

1. first/second-person singular past historic of commettre

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1. past participle of commettre

commis m pl

1. masculine plural of commi

• “commis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gummis
• cummi
• gummi
• commi

From Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.mis/, [ˈkɔmːɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.mis/, [ˈkɔmːis]

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1. Alternative form of cummis (“gum”)

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• “gummi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cummi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette