Masculine
Meaning
- (masculine) command, order
- (masculine, metonymically) authority, power to command, to give orders; command
- (masculine, metonymically) commander
- (masculine) commandment; rule or law imposed by a superior power
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/kɔ.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃/
Etymology
In summary
First attested in the eleventh century as Old French comandement. By surface analysis, commander (“to order”) + -ment.
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