different between gendarmerie vs patrol

English

Alternative forms

• gendarmery

Etymology

From French gendarmerie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???n.d??.m?.?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???n.d??.m?.?i/

Noun

gendarmerie (plural gendarmeries)

1. A military body charged with police duties among the civilian population.

Related terms

• gendarme

Translations

French

Etymology

From gendarme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.da?.m?.?i/

Noun

gendarmerie f (plural gendarmeries)

1. The military branch of the French police service.

Derived terms

• Gendarmerie royale du Canada

Related terms

• gendarme

Further reading

• “gendarmerie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

gendarmerie f pl

1. plural of gendarmeria

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??t???l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??t?o?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Alternative forms

• patrole (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From French patrouille, from Old French patrouille, patouille (“a night-watch”, literally “a tramping about”), from patrouiller, patouiller, patoiller (“to paddle or pudder in water, dabble with the feet, begrime, besmear”), from patte, pate (“paw, foot of an animal”), from Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), from Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *paþjan?, *paþ?n? (“to walk, tread, go, step, pace”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-, *(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *pent-, *pat- (“path; to go”); see find. Cognate with Dutch pad, patte (“paw”), Low German pedden (“to step, tread”), German patschen (“to splash, smack, dabble, waddle”), German Patsche (“a swatter, beater, paw, puddle, mire”). Related to pad, path.

Noun

patrol (countable and uncountable, plural patrols)

1. (military) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
2. (military) A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.
3. (military) The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
4. (law enforcement) The largest division of officers within a police department or sheriff's office, whose assignment is to patrol and respond to calls for service.
5. Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the people thus guarding.
   • 1787-1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

     In France there is an army of patrols […] to secure her fiscal regulations.
6. (Scouting) A unit of a troop, usually defined by certain ranks or age groups within the troop, and ideally comprised of six to eight members.
   • Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1920) Aids To Scoutmastership?^[1], page 24: “The formation of the boys into Patrols of from six to eight and training them as separate units each under its own responsible leader is the key to a good Troop.”

Derived terms

• patrol leader
• patrol officer
• senior patrol leader

Translations

Etymology 2

From French patrouiller, from Old French patrouiller (“to paddle, paw about, patrol”), from patte (“a paw”)

Verb

patrol (third-person singular simple present patrols, present participle patrolling, simple past and past participle patrolled)

1. (intransitive) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
2. (transitive) To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman

Translations

Further reading

• patrol in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• patrol in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• patrol at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Portal, portal, pratol

Polish

Etymology

From French patrouille, from Middle French patrouille, from Old French patrouille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.tr?l/

Noun

patrol m inan

1. (military) patrol (going of the rounds)
2. (military) patrol (movement by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts)
3. (military) patrol (guards who go the rounds for observation)

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) patrolowa?, spatrolowa?
• (noun) patrolowiec
• (adjective) patrolowy

Further reading

• patrol in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• patrol in Polish dictionaries at PWN