Translation
to be in command of, to command (troops or a ship)
Word origin
From French commander, from late Latin commandare, itself from com- and mandare, 'to entrust' - literally to put into someone's hand, from manus and dare.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- commandare
- English cognates
- command, commend, mandate
Examples
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The captain commands the ship.
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A general commanded the whole army.
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He commanded the soldiers during the long war.
and both come out as "command" in English, and they are not interchangeable. is to issue an order: it takes the thing ordered, and the person ordered goes in the dative with . is to hold command over people or a unit: it takes the people themselves. So silenti and are both right and mean different things.
That object rule is the whole of the difference and it is worth drilling. If the object is a thing that gets done, you want . If the object is a body of people, a vessel or a formation, you want .
The derivations follow: a komandanto is a commanding officer, o the command post, subkomandanto the second in command. Komando as a noun is the command itself in the military sense, and the sense of a computer instruction has been borrowed onto the same word without complaint.
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