draftee

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English draft

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Old French -ébor.

Middle English -ee

English -ee

English draftee

From draft + -ee.

Pronunciation

• enPR: drăf-tē'
• IPA^(key): /dɹæfˈti/, /ˈdɹæf.ti/
  • (trap–bath split) IPA^(key): /dɹɑːfˈti/, /ˈdɹɑːf.ti/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Homophones: drafty, draughty (one pronunication)
• Rhymes: -iː, -ɑːfti, -æfti

Noun

draftee (plural draftees)

1. One who is drafted (into a military service, etc).
   • 2022 September 22, Andrew Roth, “‘It’s a 100% mobilisation’: day one of Russia’s drive to build its army”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 October 2026:

     During a televised interview on Wednesday, Shoigu said Russia would be targeting 300,000 draftees, mainly those with recent military experience.

Translations

one who is drafted

• Armenian: զորակոչիկ (hy) (zorakočʻik)
• Azerbaijani: çağırışçı
• Belarusian: прызыўні́к m (pryzywník), навабра́нец m (navabránjec), рэ́крут m (rékrut)
• Bulgarian: на́борник m (nábornik), новобра́нец m (novobránec)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新兵 (zh) (xīnbīng)

• Czech: branec (cs) m
• Dutch: dienstplichtige (nl)
• Estonian: noorsõdur (et)
• Finnish: asevelvollinen (fi)
• French: appelé (fr) m
• Georgian: გაწვეული (gac̣veuli)
• German: Wehrpflichtiger (de) m, Rekrut (de) m
• Hungarian: újonc (hu), regruta (hu)
• Interlingua: conscripto
• Italian: coscritto (it), soldato di leva
• Japanese: 召集兵 (しょうしゅうへい, shōshūhei), 徴集兵 (ちょうしゅうへい, chōshūhei), 応召兵 (おうしょうへい, ōshōhei), 応召者 (おうしょうしゃ, ōshōsha), 徴募兵 (ちょうぼへい, chōbohei), 新兵 (ja) (しんぺい, shinpei)
• Korean: 징집된 사람 (jingjipdoen saram), 신병(新兵) (ko) (sinbyeong), 징집병(徵集兵) (jingjipbyeong)
• Latvian: iesaucamais m
• Lithuanian: šauktinis m
• Macedonian: регрут m (regrut)
• Polish: rekrut (pl) m
• Portuguese: recruta (pt) m or f
• Romanian: recrut (ro) m
• Russian: призывни́к (ru) (prizyvník), новобра́нец (ru) m (novobránec), ре́крут (ru) m (rékrut)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рѐгрӯт m

  Latin: règrūt (sh) m

• Slovak: branec (sk) m
• Slovene: nabornik m, nabornica f
• Spanish: recluta (es) m or f, conscripto (es) m
• Ukrainian: призо́вник (uk) m (pryzóvnyk), призовни́к (uk) m (pryzovnýk), новобра́нець m (novobránecʹ), ре́крут m (rékrut)
• Yiddish: פּריזיווניק m (prizivnik)

Spanish

Verb

draftee

1. inflection of draftear:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative