Kommandant

See also: kommandant

German

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.

Proto-Italic *manus

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.

Proto-Italic *-ðō

Proto-Italic *manuðō

Latin mandō

Latin commendō

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Latin mandōinflu.

Latin commandāre

Old French comander

Middle French commander

French commanderder.

French commandantbor.

German Kommandant

Borrowed from French commandant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔmanˈdant/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Kommandant m (weak, genitive Kommandanten, plural Kommandanten)

1. (military) commander (of small or medium-sized units)
2. (Austria) commander (of any unit)

   Synonym: Kommandeur

Declension

Declension of Kommandant [masculine, weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Kommandant	die	Kommandanten
genitive	eines	des	Kommandanten	der	Kommandanten
dative	einem	dem	Kommandanten	den	Kommandanten
accusative	einen	den	Kommandanten	die	Kommandanten

Related terms

• Kommandeur

Further reading

• “Kommandant” in Duden online
• “Kommandant”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)