Sicilian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Italian comandante. Doublet of cumannanti.

Noun edit

cumandanti m (plural cumandanti)

  1. (military) commander

Descendants edit

  • Maltese: kmandant

References edit

  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “cumandanti”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 371
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “cumannanti”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 1096