veteran
Swedish
/vɛtɛˈrɑːn/
noun
Definitions
- a veteran former member of armed forces
- a veteran person with long experience
Etymology
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
- veterano Spanish, Castilian
- *wet- Proto-Indo-European
- veteran Norwegian Bokmål
- veterano Portuguese
- veteran Norwegian Nynorsk
- veteran Danish
- veteran Serbo-Croatian
- vedraño Galician
- veterano Galician
- vétéran Middle French
- vedran Friulian
- vetrun Dalmatian