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pluton
platoon /plu.ˈton/
noun#5520 most common
Also: peloton (cycling group), firing squad (in "pluton de execuție")
Example sentences
Soldatul face parte dintr-un pluton.
The soldier is part of a platoon.
Plutonul mărșăluiește prin pădure.
The platoon marches through the forest.
Comandantul plutonului a dat ordinul de retragere.
The platoon commander gave the order to retreat.
În cursa de ciclism, plutonul i-a ajuns din urmă pe cei doi fugari.
In the cycling race, the peloton caught up with the two breakaway riders.
Cei doi trădători au fost executați de un pluton de execuție.
The two traitors were executed by a firing squad.
Deși fusese avertizat, plutonul de infanterie s-a angajat imprudent în ambuscadă, pierzându-și jumătate din efectiv.
Although it had been warned, the infantry platoon rashly walked into the ambush, losing half its strength.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | plutonul | plutoanele |
| Genitive | plutonului | plutoanelor |
| Accusative | plutonul | plutoanele |
| Vocative | plutonule | plutoanelor |
Word family
plutonierstaff sergeant (an NCO rank historically tied to leading a platoon)
plutonierăfemale staff sergeant
pluton de execuțiefiring squad
plutonul de capthe lead group (in a cycling race)
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "pluton" from French "peloton" during the nineteenth-century modernization of its army and vocabulary, when French military and administrative terms flooded in. French "peloton" originally meant a small ball or tight knot of people, from "pelote" (ball), and only later narrowed to its military sense of a small unit. English "platoon" traces the same French path, which is why the two words still look and sound alike.
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