adjutant

See also: Adjutant

English

Wikispecies

A lesser adjutant bird.

Etymology

From Latin adiūtō, frequentative of adiuvō (“assist”). First attested in 17th century. Or from Latin adiuvāns, present participle of adiuvō, from iuvō (“help”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: ă-j'ə-tənt IPA^(key): /ˈæ.dʒə.tənt/

Noun

adjutant (plural adjutants)

1. (military) A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
2. An assistant.
3. (zoology) Any bird of the genus Leptoptilos, a branch of the stork family (Ciconiidae) native to India and Southeast Asia.
   • 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:

     Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Plotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.

Synonyms

• (bird): adjutant bird

Hyponyms

• greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius); lesser adjutant (L. javanicus); marabou (L. crumeniferus)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• adjutant bird
• greater adjutant
• lesser adjutant

Translations

lower-ranking officer

• Czech: pobočník (cs) m
• Esperanto: adjutanto
• Finnish: adjutantti (fi)
• French: adjudant (fr) m
• German: Adjutant (de) m
• Irish: aidiúnach m
• Latin: optiō m
• Malay:

  Rumi: ajutan

• Maori: āpiha kaiāwhina
• Norman: agîtant m (Jersey)
• Persian: آجودان‎ (fa) (âjudân)
• Romanian: adjutant (ro) m
• Russian: адъюта́нт (ru) m (adʺjutánt)
• Spanish: ayudante (es)
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} rhagweinydd m

assistant

• Finnish: adjutantti (fi), avustaja (fi)
• German: Assistent (de) m
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} aidiúnach m
• Manx: co-yantagh m

• Maori: āpiha kaiāwhina
• Russian: помо́щник (ru) m (pomóščnik), подру́чный (ru) m (podrúčnyj)
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} cyfnerthwr m, ^{(please verify)} cyfnerthydd m

Adjective

adjutant (not comparable)

1. Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer.

   adjutant officer

Synonyms

• adj.
• adjt.

See also

• adjuvant
• aid

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French

Noun

adjutant m (plural adjutants)

1. (military) warrant officer class 1, warrant officer

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Swedish

Noun

adjutant c

1. (military) an adjutant

Declension

Declension of adjutant
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	adjutant	adjutanten	adjutanter	adjutanterna
Genitive	adjutants	adjutantens	adjutanters	adjutanternas