Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies, and in many navies
is the highest rank. In the Commonwealth nations and the United
States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the
army, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, or
fleet admiral. In NATO, admirals have a rank code of OF-9 as a
four-star rank.The word admiral in Middle English comes from
Anglo-French amiral, "commander", from Medieval Latin admiralis,
admirallus. These themselves come from Arabic amīr, or amīr al-
(أمير الـ), "commander of", as in amīr al-baḥr (أمير
البحر), "commander of the sea". The term was in use for the
Greco-Arab naval leaders of Norman Sicily, which had formerly been
ruled by Arabs, at least by the early 11th century.The Norman Roger II
of Sicily (1095â€"1154), employed a Greek Christian known as George of
Antioch, who previously had served as a naval commander for several
North African Muslim rulers. Roger styled George in Abbasid fashion as
Amir of Amirs, i.e. "Commander of Commanders", with the title becoming
Latinized in the 13th century as ammiratus ammiratorum.The Sicilians
and later Genoese took the first two parts of the term and used them
as one word, amiral, from their Aragon opponents. The French and
Spanish gave their sea commanders similar titles while in Portuguese
the word changed to almirante. As the word was used by people speaking
Latin or Latin-based languages it gained the "d" and endured a series
of different endings and spellings leading to the English spelling
admyrall in the 14th century and to admiral by the 16th century. Admiral Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter