état major

== English == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from French, from état (“state”) + Latin major (“greater”). === Noun === état major (plural états major) (military) The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, and judge advocates, and their noncommissioned assistants.