alferes

From Portuguese alferes, Spanish alférez, from Arabic الفَارِس (al-fāris, “the knight”), influenced in meaning by Latin aquilifer (“standard-bearer”).

• IPA^(key): /ælˈfɛɹɪs/

alferes (plural alferes)

1. (obsolete) An ensign; a standard-bearer.
   • 1624 (first performance), John Fletcher, “Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Is not this my Alferes? he looks another thing

• “alferes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Malay alperes, alferes, from Classical Malay الڤيريس (alperes), الڤيريس (alferes), from Portuguese alferes, from Arabic الفَارِس (al-fāris, “knight”). Doublet of alpiris and alperes.

• IPA^(key): /alˈferes/
• Hyphenation: al‧fé‧rés
• Rhymes: -res, -es, -s

alférés (plural alferes-alferes)

1. (obsolete) ensign

• alperes: Indonesian, Standard Malay

• “alferes”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Arabic الفَارِس (al-fāris, “knight”),^[1][2] with sense influenced by Latin aquilifer (“standard-bearer”).

• Hyphenation: al‧fe‧res

alferes m (invariable)

1. ensign (military officer)

   Synonyms: porta-bandeira, porta-estandarte

• Malay: alperes, alferes
• Indonesian: alferes

• “alferes”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026