From en.wiktionary.org:
[Commodore]
** English
[Commodore]
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [en], from [en]. See command, compare [en] (a doublet), and
[en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A naval officer holding a rank between captain and rear admiral .
2. [en] A (temporary) commander over a collection of ship s who is not an admiral .
3. [en] The leading ship in a fleet of merchantmen .
4. [en] The president of a yacht club .
5. [en] A yacht-club president's vessel in a regatta .
6. [en] [en] .
7. [en] A rear admiral (lower half) .
8. [en] 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] [en] , [en] , [en]
- [nautical] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] senior grade
- [flag naval rank] [en] , COMO [abbreviation]
- [naval rank] [en] , Cmdre. [abbreviation]
**** Coordinate terms
{{col3|en| |brigadier |senior captain |fleet captain }}
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|Commie|Commodorian |air commodore |commodore admiral |commodora }}
**** Descendants
- [it]
- [pt]
- [es]
**** Translations
[a naval officer]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Malay: [ms]
- Manx: [gv]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[a commander over a collection of ships who is not an admiral]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Italian: [it]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
[trans-bottom]
[president of a yacht club]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Ido: [io]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
{{col3|en| |senior colonel |brigadier general }}
[en]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr], from [fr]; from [fr], from [la] + [la], from [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[mfbysense]
1. [fr] [en] , a naval military rank between captain ( capitaine de vaisseau or capitaine de croiseur ) and rear admiral ( contre-amiral )
**** Synonyms
- [fr] , [fr] [abbreviation]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
[fr]