tenenten.
A lieutenant.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > lieutenant
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1929 E. Hemingway Farewell to Arms iv. 15 ‘Do they ever shell that battery?’.. ‘No, Signor Tenente.’
1969 M. Gilbert Etruscan Net iii. i. 215 He sat down, and motioned the Tenente to be seated also.
1970 F. C. Weffort in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. xi. 388 Their [sc. the Brazilian middle class's] most radical acts, generally undertaken by young military men—the tenentes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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