commando

From Afrikaans kommando, from Portuguese comando (“command”),[1] from Late Latin *commandare, from Latin commendare.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈmɑːn.dəʊ/

• Rhymes: -ɑːndəʊ

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈmændoʊ/

commando (plural commandos or commandoes)

1. A small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 89:

     The most important objective was at Batna itself, where a group of three commandos each comprising ten men was to attack Deleplanque's sub-prefecture [...].

2. A commando trooper
3. (historical) An organized force of Boer troops in South Africa; a raid by such troops

• go commando

• IPA^(key): /kɔˈmɑn.doː/, /koːˈmɑn.doː/
• Hyphenation: com‧man‧do

Borrowed from Spanish comando.

commando n (plural commando's)

1. military command [from 17th c.]

   Synonym: bevel

2. order, imperative (especially in relation to the military or animal training) [from 17th c.]

   Synonym: bevel

3. unit or division over whom an officer has command [from 17th c.]

Borrowed from English commando.

commando m (plural commando's)

1. commando, special forces unit [from 20th c.]
2. commando, member of a special forces unit [from mid 20th c.]

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɑ̃.do/

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commando m (plural commandos)

1. commando (troop, trooper)

• Rhymes: -ando

commando m (plural commandi)

1. commando (troop)

From con- +‎ mandō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /komˈman.doː/, [kɔmˈman.doː]

commandō (present infinitive commandere, perfect active commandī, supine commansum); third conjugation

1. I chew

• commando in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

commando m (plural commandos)

1. Obsolete spelling of comando

commando

1. Obsolete spelling of comando