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Adjutant
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- 1 Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer. not-comparable
"adjutant officer"
- 1 A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
- 2 large Indian stork with a military gait wordnet
- 3 An assistant.
- 4 an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer wordnet
- 5 Either of two species of stork of the genus Leptoptilos, family Ciconiidae, native to India and Southeast Asia.
"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."
Etymology
Probably partly from Spanish ayudante and partly Portuguese ajudante (“assistant, helper, aide”), use as nouns of adjectives from the present participles of Spanish ayudar and Portuguese ajudar, respectively, from Latin adiūtō (“to help, assist”), with remodeling after Latin adiūtāns, present participle of adiūtō, from adiuvō (“to help, assist”) + -tō (frequentative suffix).
Probably partly from Spanish ayudante and partly Portuguese ajudante (“assistant, helper, aide”), use as nouns of adjectives from the present participles of Spanish ayudar and Portuguese ajudar, respectively, from Latin adiūtō (“to help, assist”), with remodeling after Latin adiūtāns, present participle of adiūtō, from adiuvō (“to help, assist”) + -tō (frequentative suffix).
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