commandery
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English
[edit ]Alternative forms
[edit ]- commandary
- commandry (UK )
- commandarie , commanderie , commaundrie , commaundarie , commaunderie , commaundry , commaundary , commaundery (obsolete )
Etymology
[edit ]From French commanderie , from Late Latin commendaria , from Latin commendare .
In the Chinese administrative division sense, used as a translation of 府 (fǔ) and 郡 (jùn).
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]commandery (plural commanderies )
- A territory under the control of a commander, particularly:
- (historical ) The smallest division of a manor under the control of a commander of an order of knights, originally only the Knights Hospitaller.
- (historical ) Any of various administrative divisions of imperial China.
- A chapter of a secret order, especially the Knights Templar (order affiliated with Freemasonry).
Synonyms
[edit ]- (Chinese territory) jun, fu; chun, foo (obsolete); prefecture (some contexts)
Translations
[edit ]division of a manor under the control of a knightly commander
- Catalan: comandància
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: commanderij (nl) f
- Finnish: komentoalue
- French: commanderie (fr) f
- German: Kommende (de) f, Komturei (de) f
- Italian: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: commendaria f
- Polish: komandoria (pl) f, komturia (pl) f
- Spanish: comandancia (es) f
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