condottiere

English

Etymology

From Italian condottiere.

Noun

condottiere (plural condottieres or condottieri)

(historical) A mercenary military leader from 14th-century Italy and later in other parts of Europe.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 236:
  Statues of condottieri stood in their airless niches, darkness flaring in their eye sockets and nostrils.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:mercenary

Translations

medieval Italian mercenary leader

Armenian: կոնդոտիեր (kondotier)
Bulgarian: кондотиер m (kondotier)
Portuguese: condottiere (pt) m, condottiero (pt) m

Russian: кондотьер (ru) m (kondotʹjer)
Ukrainian: кондотьєр (uk) (kondotʹjer)

French

Etymology

Noun

condottiere m (plural condottieres)

condottiere

Italian

Etymology

From condotto +‎ -iere.

Noun

condottiere m (plural condottieri)

condottiere

Related terms

condottiero

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