commodore

See also: Commodore

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch kommandeur, from Middle French commandeur. See command, compare commend (a doublet), and mandate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.mə.doɹ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒm.ə.dɔː/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

commodore (plural commodores)

1. (military, nautical) A naval officer holding a rank between captain and rear admiral.
2. (nautical) A (temporary) commander over a collection of ships who is not an admiral.
3. (nautical) The leading ship in a fleet of merchantmen.
4. (nautical) The president of a yacht club.
5. (nautical) A yacht-club president's vessel in a regatta.
6. (US, military, nautical) A commodore admiral.
7. (US, military, nautical) A rear admiral (lower half).
8. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus .

Usage notes

The equivalent army rank is brigadier, senior colonel, brigadier general, or lowest ranking general officer grade.

Synonyms

• (non-flag naval rank): senior captain, fleet captain, flag captain
• (nautical): senior captain, fleet captain, flag captain, shipmaster senior grade
• (flag naval rank): CDRE, COMO (abbreviation)
• (naval rank): Cmdre, Cmdre. (abbreviation)

Coordinate terms

• brigadier

Descendants

• → Italian: commodoro
• → Portuguese: comodoro
• → Spanish: comodoro

Translations

a naval officer

• Catalan: comodor m
• Czech: komodor m
• Estonian: kommodoor
• Finnish: lippueamiraali (fi)
• French: commodore (fr)
• German: Kommodore (de) m, Flottillenadmiral (de) m
• Greek: αρχιπλοίαρχος (el) m (archiploíarchos)
• Hebrew: קוֹמוֹדוֹר (he) m (komodor), קברניט (he) m (kabarnit)
• Italian: commodoro (it) m
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• Japanese: 代将 (ja) (daishō)
• Malay: komodor
• Manx: ard-chaptan m
• Portuguese: comodoro (pt) m
• Romanian: comodor (ro) m
• Russian: коммодо́р (ru) m (kommodór)
• Spanish: comodoro m
• Swedish: kommendör (sv) c

a commander over a collection of ships who is not an admiral

• Finnish: kommodori (fi)
• German: Kommodore (de) m, Flottekapitän m
• Hebrew: מש"ט m (mashat)
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• Italian: commodoro (it) m
• Portuguese: comodoro (pt) m
• Romanian: comodor (ro) m

president of a yacht club

• Finnish: kommodori (fi)
• Italian: commodoro (it) m
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• Portuguese: comodoro (pt) m

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• Ido: ^{(please verify)} komodoro (io)
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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch kommandeur, from Middle French commandeur; from Latin commendare, from com- + mandare, from mandō (“I order, command”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɔ.dɔʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

commodore m or f by sense (plural commodores)

1. (military, nautical) commodore, a naval military rank between captain (capitaine de vaisseau or capitaine de croiseur) and rear admiral (contre-amiral)

Synonyms

• cmdre, cmdre. (abbreviation)

Further reading

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