![]() Captain (nautical), a licensed mariner or person who is legally in command of a ship, a yacht or another type of vessel that may or may not be carrying passengers for hire corresponding to the work condition of shipmaster or as usually said master.Captain (naval), a commissioned officer rank in the navy.Captain (armed forces), a commissioned officer rank corresponding to the field commander of a company of soldiers usually, or that of a battery of an artillery battalion (company second-in-command or specialist platoon commander in UK).This hybridized term gave rise to the English language term captain and its equivalents in other languages ( Capitan, Capitaine, Capitano, Capitão, Kapitan, Kapitän, Kapitein, Kapteeni, Kapten, kapitány, Kapudan Pasha, Kobtan, etc.). The word was Latinized as capetanus/catepan, and its meaning seems to have merged with that of the late Latin "capitaneus" (which derives from the classical Latin word "caput", meaning head). ![]() ![]() ' placed at the top', or 'the topmost'), which was used as title for a senior Byzantine military rank and office. The term "captain" derives from katepánō ( Ancient Greek: κατεπάνω, lit. ![]()
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