Translation
brigade, military unit
Word origin
From French brigade, from Italian brigata, a company or troop, from briga, strife. The same Italian root gave English brigand, which is what an unattached company tended to become.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- brigata
- English cognates
- brigade, brigand
Examples
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The brigade waited in the forest all night.
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His father served in the same brigade as my uncle.
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Two brigades marched to the border.
A is a unit, not a person. Exact sizes vary by army and by century, but the brigade sits above the regiment and below the division, which is the level at which a commander stops seeing individual faces.
Esperanto also uses the word outside the army for an organised work party, laborbrigado, a usage that came in with the workers' Esperanto movement. If you want the individual soldier, that is ; the rank he holds is his .
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