English → Latin
“commissary” in Latin
cūrōto arrange, see to, attend to, take care of, look after, ensure, tend to; to heal, cure; to govern, command, preside ovecognitoradvocate, attorney; witness (to the identity of a person)frūmentāriusof, related to or concerned with grain, corn; of, related to or concerned with supplying, foraging, producing or storing
The English word commissary itself goes back to Latin committō, through commissarius.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
commissary
curator (he that takes care of anybody’s business in general, e.g., agent of the Adriatic maritime company, curator corporis maris Hadriatici: Inser.): recuperator (judge to decide questions relating to property and pecuniary transactions, appointed by the praetor: to nominate such, dare recuperatores.) OBSERVE, not cognitor, nor inquisitor (Dict., and Schutz, Lex: Cic., under the words).
Commissary (military), annonae praefectus (at Rome, Liv., 4, 13): rei frumentariae praefectus (in Hirt., B.G., 8, 35: frumentarius = qui frumentum in oppidum importat): qui res, quas belli usus poscunt, subministrat. A board of commissaries, *duumviri (according to the number) rebus, quas belli usus poscunt, subministrandis.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for commissary?
- The usual Latin words for “commissary” are cūrō, cognitor, frūmentārius. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.