Etymology

condottiere

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Today it means: A mercenary military leader from 14th-century Italy and later in other parts of Europe. Full definition →

Italian condottiere ← Latin conductus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromconductus“assembled, collected”
  2. Italian · borrowed fromcondottiere
  3. English todaycondottiere

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

Words from the same roots

Latinconductus all →

conductconduit

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.