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say it: jen-eh-ruh-LIS-i-moh
generalissimo is a noun meaning "the officer who holds the supreme command". It is pronounced /ˌdʒɛnɛɹəˈlɪsɪˌmoʊ/ — jen-eh-ruh-LIS-i-moh. It carries one recorded sense.
the officer who holds the supreme command
“in the U.S. the president is the commander in chief”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for generalissimo come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.