cumandanti

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• cumannanti

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian comandante. Doublet of cumannanti.

Noun

cumandanti m (plural cumandanti)

1. (military) commander

Descendants

• → Maltese: kmandant

References

• 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