lieutenant
French
noun
Definitions
- lieutenantlieutenant
Etymology
Compound from French lieu (place) + French tenant.
Origin
French
tenant
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- lieu English
- aliluutnantti Finnish
- everstiluutnantti Finnish
- kapteeniluutnantti Finnish
- kenraaliluutnantti Finnish
- luutnantti Finnish
- yliluutnantti Finnish
- locum Latin
- Leutnant German
- Oberleutnant German
- luogo Italian
- luogotenente Italian
- sottoluogotenente Italian
- tenente Italian
- Richelieu French
- lieu French
- lieutenante French
- maintenant French
- milieu French
- non-lieu French
- tenant French
- лейтена́нт Russian
- løytnant Norwegian Bokmål
- löjtnant Swedish
- løytnant Norwegian Nynorsk
- løjtenant Danish
- løjtnant Danish
- tenant Old French
- leŭtenanto Esperanto
- ĉefleŭtenanto Esperanto
- lautinant Icelandic
- լեյտենանտ Armenian
- locotenent Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- лейтенант Kazakh
- lieu Middle French
- lieutenant Middle French
- leytenant Azerbaijani
- leitnant Estonian
- litinent Romansh
- leutnant Lower Sorbian