condottiere

From Italian condottiere, from Latin conductus (“assembled, collected”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔn.dɔtˈjɛɹ.eɪ/, /ˌkɔn.dəˈtjɛɹ.eɪ/, /-doʊ-/, /-tiˈɛɹ-/, /-i/

condottiere (plural condottieres or condottieri)

1. (historical) A mercenary military leader from 14th-century Italy and later in other parts of Europe.
   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 236:

     Statues of condottieri stood in their airless niches, darkness flaring in their eye sockets and nostrils.

• See Thesaurus:mercenary

From Italian.

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condottiere m (plural condottieres)

1. condottiere

• “condottiere”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From condotto +‎ -iere.

condottiere m (plural condottieri)

1. condottiere

• condottiero