command – English noun declension

English noun forms of command

Noun: command
Singularcommand
Pluralcommands

Sample Sentences

  • I was given a command to cease shooting.
  • to have command of an army
  • GAGE, at that time, had command of troops near the lakes; and fearing an attack from the Indians, had called for some new recruits from Massachusetts; but the Assembly judged them not necessary. [1822, Alden Bradford, History of Massachusetts ..., Richardson and Lord, page 41:]
  • It wasn't a decisive operation, and Carthage still had command of Spain. [2013, Barry Strauss, Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of ..., Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 68:]
  • he had command of the situation
  • England has long held command of the sea
  • a good command of language
  • The Indians had command of the lands and the waters — command of all their beneficial use, whether kept for hunting, 'and grazing roving herds of stock,' or turned to agriculture and the arts of civilization. [1985, Peter Iverson, The Plains Indians of the Twentieth Century, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 93:]
  • General Smith was placed in command.
  • Command cannot be otherwise than savage, for it implies an appeal to force, should force be needful. [1851, Herbert Spencer, Social Statics, page 180:]
  • I asked myself what I was to do there, now my boat was lost. As a matter of fact, I had plenty to do in fishing my command out of the river. [1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:]
  • Filing a complaint against a police officer in New Bedford without the benefit of witnesses is difficult, if not impossible. The police command, from sergeant to chief, is summarily defensive of the actions of police officers. [1977 August 20, David Brill, “Civil Custody Law Harasses New Bedford Gays”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 3:]
  • He's got good command tonight.
  • Atkinson […] had hinted to me that the Duke of Richmond was so delighted with my acting that he should not be surprised if there was a second command. [1809, Dorothy Jordan, letter, cited in Claire Tomalin, Mrs Jordan's Profession, Penguin 2012, p. 220]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
4. Proto-Italic *kom
5. Proto-Italic *kom-
6. Latin con-
7. Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.
8. Proto-Italic *manus
9. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
10. Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.
11. Proto-Italic *-ðō
12. Proto-Italic *manuðō
13. Latin mandō
14. Latin commendō
15. ▲
16. Latin mandōinflu.
17. Latin commandāre
18. Old French comanderbor.
19. Middle English comaunden
20. English command
21. From Middle English commanden, commaunden, comaunden, comanden, from Old French comander, from Late Latin commandāre, from Latin commendāre. Ultimately from Latin com- + mandō (whence ultimately also commend (a doublet), mandate, and recommend), from manus + -dō.
22. Compare typologically Russian поручи́ть (poručítʹ), поруче́ние (poručénije), руководи́ть (rukovodítʹ), руководи́тель (rukovodítelʹ) related to рука́ (ruká).