état major英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, and judge advocates, and their noncommissioned assistants.

— At length seeing the strife between that body and the councils settled, and guessing what would be the issue of it, the General felt that he would lose himself by his silence, without saving Pichegru, and being particularly pressed by his chef d'état Major […]

états major plural

Unadapted borrowing from French, from état (“state”) + Latin major (“greater”).