gendarme
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French gendarme, from plural gendarmes, a re-spelling of gens d’armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gendarme (plural gendarmes or gensdarmes)
- A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
- A policeman.
- 2003, Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Debating Cosmopolitics, Verso, page 170:
- The US is tempted to play the role of global gendarme because everyone knows that the UN, as it is, lacks the resources and capacity to fill this role.
- A rock pinnacle on a mountain ridge.
- 1979, Chris Jones, Climbing in North America, →ISBN, page 118:
- The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly.
- 1998, Climbing - Issues 178-180, page 64:
- The Arete starts easily, with several beautiful, loping pitches leading to a striking gendarme.
- 2013, Joe Kelsey, Climbing and Hiking in the Wind River Mountains, →ISBN, page 259:
- Continuing to the main summit involves ascents of the gendarmes (the first being the owl-eared one referred to in the next route description) and 140-foot rappels down their south sides.
Synonyms edit
- (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer
Translations edit
member of the gendarmerie
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policeman — see policeman
rock pinnacle
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Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Singular extracted from plural gendarmes, which arose as a re-spelling of gens d’armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gendarme m (plural gendarmes)
- a member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties
- firebug (the insect)
- landjäger (a type of sausage)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: gendarme
- → Italian: gendarme
- → Ottoman Turkish: ژاندارمه (jandarma)
- → Romanian: jandarm
- → Russian: жандарм (žandarm)
- → Persian: ژاندرم (žândarm)
Further reading edit
- “gendarme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Gendarme (charcuterie) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French gendarme.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gendarme m (plural gendarmi)
- policeman (armed)
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: gen‧dar‧me
Noun edit
gendarme m (plural gendarmes)
- gendarme (member of the gendarmerie)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French gendarme.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gendarme m or f by sense (plural gendarmes)
- (law enforcement) policeperson (armed)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “gendarme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014