commandant

See also: Commandant

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.

Proto-Italic *manus

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.

Proto-Italic *-ðō

Proto-Italic *manuðō

Latin mandō

Latin commendō

▲

Latin mandōinflu.

Latin commandāre

Old French comander

Middle French commander

French commanderder.

French commandant

English commandant

From French commandant.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒməndænt/, /kɒmənˈdænt/, /-dɑnt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒməndənt/, /ˈkɒməndɑːnt/, /kɒmənˈdɑːnt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (Indic) IPA^(key): /kəˈmɑnɖənʈ/, /-ˈman-/

Noun

commandant (plural commandants)

1. (military) A commanding officer, usually of a specific force or division.
2. (military) A military rank equivalent to major used in some countries, especially when derived from French usage.
3. (military, South Africa, historical) lieutenant-colonel

Derived terms

• colonel commandant, colonel-commandant
• commandant-general
• commandantship

Translations

a commanding officer, usually of a specific force or division

• Armenian: պարետ (hy) (paret)
• Bulgarian: командир (bg) m (komandir)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指揮官 / 指挥官 (zh) (zhǐhuīguān)

• Finnish: komendantti (fi)
• French: commandant (fr) m
• Hungarian: parancsnok (hu)
• Italian: comandante (it) m
• Portuguese: comandante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: comandant (ro) m
• Russian: команди́р (ru) m (komandír), коменда́нт (ru) m (komendánt)
• Spanish: comandante (es) m

References

• Radburn, A. (2012). SOUTH AFRICAN ARMY RANKS AND INSIGNIA. Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.5787/20-2-364

Dutch

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.

Proto-Italic *manus

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.

Proto-Italic *-ðō

Proto-Italic *manuðō

Latin mandō

Latin commendō

▲

Latin mandōinflu.

Latin commandāre

Old French comander

Middle French commander

French commanderder.

French commandantbor.

Dutch commandant

Borrowed from French commandant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔ.mɑnˈdɑnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: com‧man‧dant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

commandant m (plural commandanten, diminutive commandantje n)

1. commander

Derived terms

• commandantschip
• hoofdcommandant
• legercommandant

Related terms

• commanderen
• commando

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kommandant
• → Indonesian: komandan
• → Min Nan: 公勃壟 / 公勃垄 (kong-pu̍t-lóng)
• → West Frisian: kommandant

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.

Proto-Italic *manus

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.

Proto-Italic *-ðō

Proto-Italic *manuðō

Latin mandō

Latin commendō

▲

Latin mandōinflu.

Latin commandāre

Old French comander

Middle French commander

French commanderder.

French commandant

Present participle of commander.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɑ̃.dɑ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Homophone: commandants

Noun

commandant m (plural commandants, feminine commandante)

1. commander (function)
2. major (rank)

Descendants

• → Arabic: كُوماندان (komāndān, “commander”)
• → English: commandant
• → German: Kommandant
• → Dutch: commandant
  • Afrikaans: kommandant
  • → Indonesian: komandan
  • → Min Nan: 公勃壟 / 公勃垄 (kong-pu̍t-lóng)
  • → West Frisian: kommandant
• Haitian Creole: komandan
• → Hindi: कमांडेंट (kamāṇḍẽṭ)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قوماندان (komandan)
  • → Arabic: قُومَنْدان (qomandān, “military commander”)
  • Turkish: kumandan
  • → Pashto: قومندان (qumandā́n, qomandā́n), کومندان (kumandā́n, komandā́n), کوماندان (kumāndā́n, komāndā́n)
  • → Persian:

    Dari: قومَنْدَان (qōmandān), قومَانْدَان (qōmāndān)

  • → Uyghur: قوماندان (qomandan)
  • → Uzbek: qoʻmondon
• → Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کُمانْدان (komândân), کوماندان (komândân)

• → Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi script: کُمیدان (kumedān)

  Gurmukhi script: ਕੁਮੇਦਾਨ (kumedān)

• → Russian: коменда́нт (komendánt)

Further reading

• “commandant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

commandant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of commandō

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

commandant m (plural commandants, feminine commandante)

1. (Jersey) commanding officer