the highest non-commissioned officer rank: sergeant major, “major” · major (field officer rank)
çekim: çoğul majors
köken: From Middle French major, from Spanish mayor, from Latin maior. Doublet of maire, majeur, and mayeur. The use for a non-commissioned officer in the French army (since 1972) is a short form of adjudant-major or sergent-major.
çekim: karşılaştırma īnsignior · üstünlük īnsignissimus
köken: From in- (“within”) + signum (“a sign, an emblem”) + -is (adjective-forming suffix) so formed because the subject qualified by this adjective has been revealed, specifically by means of a sign, to be exceptional relative to ordinary examples of its kind.
aile: īnsigne, īnsigniō, īnsigniter
, Cicero Ad Quintum Fratrem Dialogi Tres: De Oratore, Libri Tres 237
, Cicero De Oratore, Libri Tres 244
, Cicero Laelius sive De Amicitia Dialogus ...insignis virtus Scipionis...