veteran
Moldavian
noun
Definitions
- veteran (person who has served in the armed forces, or figuratively a person with a long experience of a particular activity; also used in the context of Ancient Rome, referring to a freed soldier granted citizenship and privileges for his service)
Etymology
Borrowed from French vétéran borrowed from Latin veterānus (veteran, old).
Origin
Latin
veterānus
Gloss
veteran, old
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
古, 老
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- veterānus Latin
- vetrānus Latin
- vetus Latin
- Veteran German
- veterano Italian
- veteraan Dutch, Flemish
- vétéran French
- vétérane French
- veterano Spanish, Castilian
- *wet- Proto-Indo-European
- veteran Norwegian Bokmål
- veterano Portuguese
- veteran Swedish
- veteran Norwegian Nynorsk
- veteran Danish
- veteran Serbo-Croatian
- vedraño Galician
- veterano Galician
- vétéran Middle French
- vedran Friulian
- vetrun Dalmatian