commando

From Afrikaans kommando, from Portuguese comando (“command”),^[1] from Late Latin *commandare, from Latin commendare.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈmɑːn.dəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːndəʊ

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈmændoʊ/

commando (plural commandos or commandoes)

1. A small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 89:

     The most important objective was at Batna itself, where a group of three commandos each comprising ten men was to attack Deleplanque's sub-prefecture [...].

2. A commando trooper.
   • 2022 March 8, “Tory MP’s son among UK ex-servicemen heading to Ukrainian front line”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     Ben Grant, 30, who spent more than five years as a commando in the Royal Marines, is part of group of seven ex-servicemen who arrived in Ukraine over the weekend to fight invading Russian forces.

4. (historical) An organized force of Boer troops in South Africa; a raid by such troops.

• → Dutch: commando
• → Greek: κομάντο (kománto)

• IPA^(key): /kɔˈmɑn.doː/, /koːˈmɑn.doː/
• Hyphenation: com‧man‧do

Borrowed from Spanish comando.

commando n (plural commando's)

1. military command [from 17th c.]

   Synonym: bevel

2. order, imperative (especially in relation to the military or animal training) [from 17th c.]

   Synonym: bevel

3. unit or division over whom an officer has command [from 17th c.]

Borrowed from English commando, from Afrikaans kommando, from Portuguese comando.

commando m (plural commando's)

1. commando, special forces unit [from 20th c.]
2. commando, member of a special forces unit [from mid 20th c.]

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɑ̃.do/

• Audio:

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commando m (plural commandos)

1. commando (troop, trooper)

• → Turkish: komando

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

• IPA^(key): /komˈman.do/
• Rhymes: -ando
• Hyphenation: com‧màn‧do

commando m (plural commandi)

1. commando (troop)

Reflection of commendō based on the unprefixed counterpart mandō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔmˈmɛn.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [komˈmɛn̪.d̪o]

commandō (present infinitive commandāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

1. alternative form of commendō
   • 2nd century CE, Velius Longus, De Orthographia:

     ...et quamvis commendo dicamus tamen commando in consuetudine est.^[1]

     ...and although we may say commendo, commando is still in use.

From con- +‎ mandō.

commandō (present infinitive commandere, perfect active commandī, supine commānsum); third conjugation (Late Latin)

1. to chew

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “commendare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 948

• “commando”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

commando m (plural commandos)

1. obsolete spelling of comando

commando

1. obsolete spelling of comando

commando

1. first-person singular present indicative of commandar