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adjutant en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • ă'-jə-tənt
  • /ˈæ.d͡ʒə.tənt/
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Probably in part from Spanish ayudante and in part from Portuguese ajudante (“assistant, helper, aide”), nominal uses of present participial adjectives from respectively ayudar and ajudar, from Latin adiūtō (“to help, assist”), with remodeling after its present participle adiūtāns (acc. adiūtantem). The stork's name is derived from the military sense, owing to its marchlike stiff gait when on ground.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer.
    • adjutant officer

Relateds

aid · adjuvant

Synonyms

adjt · adj.

adjutant en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • ă'-jə-tənt
  • /ˈæ.d͡ʒə.tənt/
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Probably in part from Spanish ayudante and in part from Portuguese ajudante (“assistant, helper, aide”), nominal uses of present participial adjectives from respectively ayudar and ajudar, from Latin adiūtō (“to help, assist”), with remodeling after its present participle adiūtāns (acc. adiūtantem). The stork's name is derived from the military sense, owing to its marchlike stiff gait when on ground.

Meanings

  1. An assistant.
  2. (qualifier:stricto sensu) A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
  3. Either the greater or the lesser adjutant, stork species of the genus Leptoptilos, family Ciconiidae, native to India and Southeast Asia.
    • Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Plotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises. 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552

Forms

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Deriveds

greater adjutant · adjutant general · adjutantship · lesser adjutant · adjutant-general · adjutant bird · coadjutant · adjutancy · adjutant stork

Synonyms

adjutant bird

Translations (44)

mk аѓута́нт (lower-ranking officer) · gv co-yantagh (assistant) · ms ajutan (lower-ranking officer) · et asjaajaja (assistant) · ko 부관 (lower-ranking officer) · nl adjudant (lower-ranking officer) · id ajudan (lower-ranking officer) · fr adjudant (lower-ranking officer) · cmn 副官 (lower-ranking officer) · pl adiutantka (lower-ranking officer) · et marabu (stork of genus Leptoptilos) · fi adjutantti (lower-ranking officer) · et käsundusohvitser (lower-ranking officer) · hy համհարզ (lower-ranking officer) · et assistent (assistant) · ru адъюта́нт (lower-ranking officer) · el υπασπιστής (assistant) · tr yaver (assistant) · fi avustaja (assistant) · ru помо́щник (assistant) · pl adiutant (lower-ranking officer) · zlw-slv adjúdant (lower-ranking officer) · cs pobočník (lower-ranking officer) · nrf agîtant (lower-ranking officer) · et abi (assistant) · la optiō (lower-ranking officer) · es ayudante (lower-ranking officer) · ro adjutant (lower-ranking officer) · mi āpiha kaiāwhina (assistant) · de Adjutant (lower-ranking officer) · ja 禿鸛 (stork of genus Leptoptilos) · de Assistent (assistant) · mi āpiha kaiāwhina (lower-ranking officer) · ga aidiúnach (lower-ranking officer) · ru подру́чный (assistant) · eo adjutanto (lower-ranking officer) · id ajudan (assistant) · mk по́мошник (assistant) · et adjutant (lower-ranking officer) · fa آجودان (lower-ranking officer) · fi adjutantti (assistant) · nl maraboe (stork of genus Leptoptilos) · et sekretär (assistant) · ru марабу́ (stork of genus Leptoptilos)