adjutant

See also: Adjutant

English

Wikispecies

A lesser adjutant bird.

Etymology

From Latin adiūtō, frequentative of adiuvō (“assist”). First attested in 17th century. Or from Latin adiuvāns, present participle of adiuvō, from iuvō (“help”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ă-j'ə-tənt IPA^(key): /ˈæ.d͡ʒə.tənt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

adjutant (plural adjutants)

1. (military) A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
2. An assistant.
3. (zoology) Any bird of the genus Leptoptilos, a branch of the stork family (Ciconiidae) native to India and Southeast Asia.
   • 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:

     Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Plotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.

Synonyms

• (bird): adjutant bird

Hyponyms

• greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius); lesser adjutant (L. javanicus); marabou (L. crumeniferus)

Derived terms

• adjutancy
• adjutant bird
• adjutant-general
• adjutant general
• adjutantship
• adjutant stork
• coadjutant
• greater adjutant
• lesser adjutant

 

Translations

lower-ranking officer

• Armenian: համհարզ (hy) (hamharz)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 副官 (zh) (fùguān)

• Czech: pobočník (cs) m
• Esperanto: adjutanto (eo)
• Finnish: adjutantti (fi)
• French: adjudant (fr) m
• German: Adjutant (de) m
• Indonesian: ajudan (id)
• Irish: aidiúnach m
• Korean: 부관(副官) (ko) (bugwan)
• Latin: optiō m
• Macedonian: аѓута́нт m (aǵutánt)
• Malay:

  Rumi: ajutan

• Maori: āpiha kaiāwhina
• Norman: agîtant m (Jersey)
• Persian: آجودان (fa) (âjudân)
• Polish: adiutant (pl) m, adiutantka (pl) f
• Romanian: adjutant (ro) m
• Russian: адъюта́нт (ru) m (adʺjutánt)
• Slovincian: adjúdant m
• Spanish: ayudante (es)
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} rhagweinydd m

assistant

• Finnish: adjutantti (fi), avustaja (fi)
• German: Assistent (de) m
• Indonesian: ajudan (id)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} aidiúnach m
• Macedonian: по́мошник m (pómošnik)
• Manx: co-yantagh m
• Maori: āpiha kaiāwhina
• Russian: помо́щник (ru) m (pomóščnik), подру́чный (ru) m (podrúčnyj)
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} cyfnerthwr m, ^{(please verify)} cyfnerthydd m

stork of genus Leptoptilos

• Dutch: maraboe (nl) m
• Russian: марабу́ (ru) m (marabú)

Adjective

adjutant (not comparable)

1. Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer.

   adjutant officer

Synonyms

• adj.
• adjt.

See also

• adjuvant
• aid

French

Noun

adjutant m (plural adjutants, feminine adjutante)

1. (military) warrant officer class 1, warrant officer

Polish

Noun

adjutant m pers

1. Pre-1936 spelling of adiutant.

Declension

Declension of adjutant

	singular	plural
nominative	adjutant	adjutanci/adjutanty (deprecative)
genitive	adjutanta	adjutantów
dative	adjutantowi	adjutantom
accusative	adjutanta	adjutantów
instrumental	adjutantem	adjutantami
locative	adjutancie	adjutantach
vocative	adjutancie	adjutanci

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French adjudant.

Noun

adjutant m (plural adjutanți)

1. adjutant

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	adjutant	adjutantul		adjutanți	adjutanții
genitive-dative	adjutant	adjutantului		adjutanți	adjutanților
vocative	adjutantule			adjutanților

Swedish

Noun

adjutant c

1. (military) an adjutant

Declension

Declension of adjutant

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	adjutant	adjutants
	definite	adjutanten	adjutantens
plural	indefinite	adjutanter	adjutanters
	definite	adjutanterna	adjutanternas