## Etymology
Informal shortening of communist + -ie, ultimately from Latin communis ('common, shared'), from com- ('together') + munus ('duty, gift, office').

## AI Etymology
Commie is traced as follows: Informal shortening of communist + -ie, ultimately from Latin communis ('common, shared'), from com- ('together') + munus ('duty, gift, office'). The historical trail runs through communis in Latin and munus in Latin. Morphologically, commie is transparent: informal shortening of communist + -ie, ultimately from Latin communis ('common, shared'), from com- ('together') + munus ('duty, gift, office'). Used as a noun and adjective, commie now means "a communist (informal, usually derogatory)", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in related forms such as communism, communist, and communistic. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

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