Word Origin Summary

*commandāre is attested in Vulgar Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• commandeer

  English · derived from

• kommandieren

  German · derived from

• comandare

  Italian · inherited from

• comânda

  Romanian · inherited from

• comandar

  Spanish · borrowed from

• kommandere

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• comandar

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• commander

  French · inherited from

What You Can Explore

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