英语词汇“condottiere”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

condottiere

释义

‖ condottiere|kondotˈtjɛre|
Also (erron.) condottiero. pl. condottieri (-ri).
[It. condottiere, f. condotto conduct + -iere, a later variant of -iero, repr. late L. -erius for -ārius.]
A professional military leader or captain, who raised a troop, and sold his service to states or princes at war; the leader of a troop of mercenaries. The name arose in Italy, but the system prevailed largely over Europe from the 14th to the 16th c.
1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxviii, From this latter practice arose their name Condottieri.1852Grote Greece ii. lxxi. (1862) VI. 325 He had now become a sort of professional Condottiero or general.1874Motley Barneveld II. xi. 30 The already notorious condottiere Ernest Mansfeld.
attrib.1822Byron Werner ii. i, A kind of general condottiero system Of bandit warfare.1887Sat. Rev. 21 May 741/2 Hawkwood..A highly respectable specimen of the condottiere species.
Hence condottiˈerism.
1887Sat. Rev. 8 Jan. 35/1 Mere follow-my-leader-and-keep-my-place condottierism.

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