From French émissaire, from Latin emissarius (“agent, scout, spy”).
emissary (plural emissaries)
- An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.
- (anatomy) A venous channel in the skull.
- An underground channel by which the water of a lake escapes.
an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
- Arabic: مَبْعُوث m (mabʕūṯ)
- Belarusian: эміса́р m (emisár), эміса́рка f (emisárka)
- Bulgarian: емиса́р (bg) m (emisár), емиса́рка f (emisárka), пра́теник (bg) m (prátenik), пра́теница f (prátenica), пра́теничка f (prátenička)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 使者 (zh) (shǐzhě), 伻 (zh) (bēng)
- Czech: emisar (cs) m, emisař (cs) m
- Danish: udsending c, sendebud n
- Dutch: afgezant (nl) m
- Egyptian: (wpwtj)
- Esperanto: sendito
- Finnish: lähettiläs (fi)
- French: émissaire (fr) m or f
- German: Emissär (de) m, Emissärin (de) f, Abgesandter (de) m
- Greek: αγγελιοφόρος (el) m (angeliofóros), απεσταλμένος (el) m (apestalménos)
- Japanese: 使者 (ja) (ししゃ, shisha)
- Korean: 사자(使者) (ko) (saja)
- Latin: emissarius m
- Macedonian: пратеник m (pratenik), пратеничка f (pratenička)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sendebud n
- Ottoman Turkish: رسول (resul)
- Polish: emisariusz (pl) m, emisariuszka f
- Portuguese: emissário (pt) m
- Russian: эмисса́р (ru) m (emissár), посла́нник (ru) m (poslánnik), посла́нница (ru) f (poslánnica)
- Slovak: emisár m
- Spanish: emisario m, emisaria f
- Swedish: sändebud (sv) n, emissarie (sv) c
- Ukrainian: еміса́р m (emisár), еміса́рка f (emisárka)
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a venous channel in the skull