commis
noun/ˈkɒmi/
/kəˈmiː/
(plural commis
/ˈkɒmi/
/kəˈmiː/
)(also commis chef)
- a junior cook who works in a kitchen compare chef, sous-chefTopics Cooking and eatingc2Word Origin1930s: from French, ‘deputy, clerk’, past participle of commettre ‘entrust’, from Latin committere (in medieval Latin ‘put into custody’), from com- ‘with’ + mittere ‘put or send’.
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