Legionnaire

Legionnaire (from the Latin legionarius , adjective to legio "raised team", taken from the French légionnaire in German ):

• the soldiers of a Roman legion (lat. miles legionarius "legionary soldier"; also just legionarius ), see Roman legion #Hierarchy
• in modern times a mercenary on the pay of another nation , in particular:
  • a member of the French Foreign Legion
  • a member of the Spanish Legion
  • a member of the American Legion
  • a member of the Romanian Archangel Michael Legion , the Iron Guard

• Legionnaire (sport) , an athlete who works professionally outside his home country

• The Legionnaire , American action film from 1998

See also:

Wiktionary: Legionnaire  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Legionaries of Christ
• legion

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.