English Explanatory Dictionary

drungar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of military commander in the late Roman and Byzantine Empires, usually commanding roughly a battalion on land or a fleet on the sea.

Word forms

drungar drungars drungary

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δρουγγάριος (droungários), from Late Latin drungārius, from drungus (“a troop”).

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