Word Origin Summary

Commander is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. commendāreLatininherited from
2. *commandoVulgar Latininherited from
3. comanderFrenchinherited from
4. commendōLatininherited from
5. *commandāreVulgar Latininherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• commandeer

  English · derived from

• kommandieren

  German · derived from

• kommandere

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• comandar

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• kommandíroz

  Hungarian · derived from

• komentaa

  Finnish · derived from

• comanda

  Romanian · borrowed from

• командировать

  Russian · derived from

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