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captaincy

noun

Etymology

From captain + -cy. Piecewise doublet of chieftaincy.

  1. derived from *kap-✻
  2. derived from caput
  3. derived from capitāneus
  4. derived from capitaine
  5. inherited from capitain
  6. suffixed as captaincy — “captain + cy”

Definitions

  1. The rank or status of a captain.

  2. The jurisdiction of a captain.

  3. An administrative division of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires.

    • He obtains a captaincy in the Catalonian army
    • The territory bathed by this river belongs to the captaincy of Benito Maciel the father.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA