commandement
English
French
Etymology
First attested in the eleventh century as Old French comandement. By surface analysis, commander (“to order”) + -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃/
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Noun
commandement m (plural commandements)
- command, order
- Il a fait cela par votre commandement. ― He did this by your order.
- (metonymically) authority, power to command, to give orders; command
- poste de commandement ― command post
- centre de commandement ― command center
- commandement des forces interarmées ― Joint Forces Command
- 2021 March 8, “La Corée du Sud et les Etats-Unis entament leurs exercices militaires conjoints pendant l'épidémie de COVID-19”, in french.xinhua.net:
- Le commandement en temps de guerre de la Corée du Sud avait été remis aux forces américaines après le déclenchement de la Guerre de Corée (1950-1953). La Corée du Sud a repris son contrôle opérationnel en temps de paix depuis 1994.
- Wartime command over South Korean troops had been handed over to American forces upon the outbreak of the Korean War (1950-1953). South Korea has reassumed peacetime operational control since 1994.
- (metonymically) commander
- (religion) commandment; rule or law imposed by a superior power
- les Dix Commandements ― the Ten Commandments
Derived terms
Further reading
- “commandement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
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