second lieutenant

English

Noun

second lieutenant (plural second lieutenants)

1. The lowest rank of a commissioned army officer, below a lieutenant.
2. The lowest rank of a commissioned officer in the United States Army, United States Air Force, or United States Marine Corps, below a first lieutenant. The rank of second lieutenant is equivalent to the naval rank of ensign.

Usage notes

When used as a title, it is always capitalized.

Example: Second Lieutenant Jane Doe.

The rank corresponds to pay grade O-1. Abbreviations: 2LT (Army), 2ndLt (Marine Corps), 2nd Lt (Air Force).

Synonyms

• ensign (traditional infantry lowest commission officer rank)
• coronet (traditional cavalry lowest commission officer rank)

Coordinate terms

(rank under lieutenant):

• lieutenant junior grade
• sublieutenant

Translations

the rank below a lieutenant

• Albanian: nëntoger (sq) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 少尉 (zh) (shàowèi)

• Czech: poručík (cs) (m)
• Dutch: tweede luitenant (nl) m
• Estonian: nooremleitnant
• Finnish: vänrikki (fi)
• French: sous-lieutenant (fr) m
• German: Leutnant (de) m
• Greek: ανθυπολοχαγός (el) c (anthypolochagós) (see for other forces)
• Hungarian: alhadnagy (hu)
• Italian: sottotenente m
• Macedonian: потпоручник m (potporučnik)
• Manx: fo-aachaptan m
• Norwegian: fenrik m, sekondløytnant m (dated)
• Persian: ستوان دو (sotvân do)
• Polish: podporucznik (pl) m
• Portuguese: subtenente m
• Romanian: sublocotenent (ro) m
• Russian: мла́дший лейтена́нт (ru) m (mládšij lejtenánt), подпору́чик (ru) m (podporúčik) (historical)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀ручнӣк m, по̀ручница f

  Roman: pòručnīk (sh) m, pòručnica (sh) f

• Slovene: poróčnik (sl) m, poróčnica f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: leutnant m

• Spanish: alférez (es) m
• Swahili: luteni wa pili
• Turkish: asteğmen (tr)
• Vietnamese: thiếu úy (vi)

Further reading

• second lieutenant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia