capitainerie

Inherited from Middle French capitainerie. By surface analysis, capitaine +‎ -erie.

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capitainerie f (plural capitaineries)

1. port authority
2. (obsolete) captaincy

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

• captainrie

Borrowed from Middle French capitainerie; equivalent to capitain +‎ -erie.

• IPA^(key): /kap(ə)ˌtɛi̯n(ə)ˈriː(ə)/, /kap(ə)ˈtɛi̯n(ə)riː(ə)/, /ˈkap(ə)tin(ə)riː(ə)/

capitainerie (plural capitaineries)

1. (rare) The position of a military administrator of a fort or settlement.

• English: captainry

• “capitainerīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-14.