admiralty

See also: Admiralty

English

Etymology

From French amirauté, for an older amiralté (“office of admiral”), from Late Latin admīrālitās. See admiral. Analyzable as admiral +‎ -ty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæd.mɪ.ɹəl.ti/
• Hyphenation: ad‧mi‧ral‧ty

• Audio (US):

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Noun

admiralty (countable and uncountable, plural admiralties)

1. (military) The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
2. (military) The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
3. (law) The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
4. (law) The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
5. (military) The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.

Derived terms

• admiralty brass
• Admiralty Islands
• droit of admiralty
• vice-admiralty

 

Translations

office or jurisdiction

• Armenian: ծովակալություն (hy) (covakalutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: адмиралтейство (admiraltejstvo)
• Catalan: almirallat m
• Dutch: admiraliteit (nl), admiraalschap (nl)
• Esperanto: admiralejo
• Finnish: amiraalinvirka (office); amiraalikunta (jurisdiction)
• French: amirauté (fr)
• Georgian: საადმირალო (saadmiralo)
• German: Admiralität (de), Seebehörde, Admiralsamt, Admiralswürde
• Greek: ναυαρχείο (el) n (navarcheío)
• Ido: admiralaro
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• Indonesian: kelaksamanaan
• Irish: aimiréalacht f
• Italian: ammiragliato
• Manx: ard-marraght f
• Norman: amithauté f
• Polish: admiralicja (pl) f
• Portuguese: almirantado
• Romanian: amiralitate (ro) f
• Russian: адмиралте́йство (ru) n (admiraltéjstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: адмиралѝте̄т m

  Roman: admiralìtēt (sh) m

• Spanish: almirantazgo (es)
• Swedish: amiralitet (sv) c
• Turkish: amirallik (tr)

department or officers

• Finnish: merivoimien esikunta; amiraliteetti (department); amiraalikunta (officers)
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• Hebrew: אָדְמִירָלִיּוּת (he) f (admiraliyut)
• Indonesian: kelaksamanaan
• Polish: admiralicja (pl) f

court

• Finnish: merioikeus
• Georgian: საზღვაო სასამართლო (sazɣvao sasamartlo), საადმირალო სასამართლო (saadmiralo sasamartlo)
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• Hebrew: בֵּית דִּין שֶׁל הָאַדְמִירָלִיּוּת (he) m (beyt din shel ha'admiraliyut)
• Indonesian: kelaksamanaan

system of jurisdiction

• Finnish: merioikeus
• Georgian: საზღვაო სასამართლო (sazɣvao sasamartlo), საადმირალო სასამართლო (saadmiralo sasamartlo), საზღვაო საქმეების იურისდიქცია (sazɣvao sakmeebis iurisdikcia)
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• Indonesian: kelaksamanaan

building

• Finnish: amiraliteetti
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• Polish: admiralicja (pl) f

See also

• admiralty law

Anagrams

• dramality