aide-de-camp

English

Alternative forms

• ADC

Etymology

Borrowed from French aide-de-camp, from aide + de (“of”) + camp (“(military) camp”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeɪd dɪ ˈkæmp/, /ˌeɪd dɪ ˈkɒmp/
• IPA^(key): /ˌeɪd dɪ ˈkæmp/

Noun

aide-de-camp (plural aides-de-camp)

1. A military officer who serves as an adjutant to a higher ranking officer, prince or other high political dignitary.

   Unlike the orderly or batman, a humble low-ranking servant, an aide-de-camp is often a general, who before the institution of the chief of staff could hold a similar position to his chief.

Translations

military officer

• Armenian: համհարզ (hy) (hamharz)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 副官 (zh) (fùguān)

• Danish: adjunkt c
• Dutch: vleugeladjudant m
• Esperanto: adjutanto (eo)
• Finnish: adjutantti (fi)
• French: aide de camp (fr) m, adjudant (fr) m
• German: Flügeladjutant (de) m, Aide-de-camp m
• Greek: υπασπιστής (el) m (ypaspistís)
• Hausa: ēdīsì m
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• Interlingue:
• Japanese: 副官 (ふくかん, fukukan, ふっかん, fukkan)
• Latin: optiō m
• Malay: adikong (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: adjutant (no) m

• Portuguese: ajudante de campo m
• Romanian: adjutant (ro) m, aghiotant (ro) m
• Russian: адъюта́нт (ru) m (adʺjutánt)
• Spanish: edecán (es) m
• Turkish: yaver (tr)

See also

• equerry