captaincy

English

Etymology

captain +‎ -cy

Noun

captaincy (countable and uncountable, plural captaincies)

1. The rank or status of a captain.
2. The jurisdiction of a captain.
3. (historical) An administrative division of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires.

   Synonym: capitania

Quotations

• 1828 Juan van Halen - Narrative of Don Juan Van Halen's Imprisonment in the Dungeons of the Inquistion at Madrid

  He obtains a captaincy in the Catalonian army

• 1859, Garcilaso de la Vega, Christóbel de Acuña, Clements Robert Markham, Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons:

  The territory bathed by this river belongs to the captaincy of Benito Maciel the father.

Synonyms

• captainship

Derived terms

• donatary captaincy

 

Translations

rank or status of a captain

• Afrikaans: kapteinskap
• Swahili: ukapteni