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committal en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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• /kəˈmɪtəl/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti Proto-Italic *meitō Old Latin mītō Latin mittō Latin committōbor. Middle English committen English commit Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English committal From commit + -al.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of entrusting something to someone.
2. (countable, uncountable) The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
3. (countable, uncountable) The act of perpetrating an offence.
4. (countable, uncountable) The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.

Forms

Deriveds

precommittal · recommittal

Relateds

noncommittal · committal hearing · commitment · commit

Translations (8)

pl pochówek (the act of putting a body into a grave) · gl enterramento (the act of putting a body into a grave) · mi tanumanga (the act of putting a body into a grave) · cy traddodiant (the act of putting a body into a grave) · gl inhumación (the act of putting a body into a grave) · gl soterramento (the act of putting a body into a grave) · de Bestattung (the act of putting a body into a grave) · de Beisetzung (the act of putting a body into a grave)

committal en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti Proto-Italic *meitō Old Latin mītō Latin mittō Latin committōbor. Middle English committen English commit English -ee English committee Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English committal From committee + -al.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, usually) Of or relating to a committee.
2. (not-comparable, usually) Of or relating to commitment.
   • He points out that the former hypothesis is less committal epistemically, and he claims that nothing more committal is required to make sense of scientific method. 1997, Jarrett Leplin, A Novel Defense of Scientific Realism, page 138:
   • On reading the work, we have become impressed with this fact, and have several times wished that the author was more committal on the treatment of several diseases in which he himself must have had a large experience. 1869, Medical Record, volume 3, page 17:
   • Notice also that the credibility of noncommittal observational beliefs will compare in a similar way with the credibility of more committal (or theoretical) observational beliefs, such as belief that addition of a base solution to an acid solution (to take the more committal, or theoretical, version of the noncommittal observational belief just mentioned). 1989, David Owen Brink, Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics, page 138:

Forms

Deriveds

committally · noncommittal