mandamento

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Borrowed from Italian mandamento. Doublet of mandement.

mandamento (plural mandamentos)

1. mandamento (former type of Italian administrative district; territory ruled by a praetor)
2. mandamento (territory ruled by a Sicilian Mafia clan, under a capomandamento (“family boss”))

From mandare +‎ -mento.

• IPA^(key): /man.daˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: man‧da‧mén‧to

mandamento m (plural mandamenti)

1. a former type of Italian administrative district, under the jurisdiction of a pretore (“praetor”) (magistrate)
2. the territory of a Cosa Nostra (“Sicilian Mafia”) clan (its mandate territory, mandatory, commandery)

• capomandamento

• mandamentale

• Hyphenation: man‧da‧men‧to

mandamento m (plural mandamentos)

1. (chiefly biblical) commandment (command or edict)