Commando

·add. ·vt In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers.

commando
com-mando, no perf., sum, ĕre, v. a., to chew (late Lat.): frondes myrti, Ser. Samm. 36, 684: rad...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.