commodore

See also: Commodore

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.mə.doɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) 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. (military, nautical) Ellipsis of commodore admiral.
7. (US, military, nautical) A rear admiral (lower half).
8. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Parasarpa.

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
• fleet captain
• senior captain

 

Derived terms

• air commodore
• commodora
• commodore admiral

 

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
• 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)
• Italian: commodoro (it) m
• Portuguese: comodoro (pt) m
• Romanian: comodor (ro) m

president of a yacht club

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

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

See also

• brigadier general
• senior colonel

 

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɔ.dɔʁ/

• Audio

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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.