rewheteneti
1. (loan) (noun) lieutenant - an army or US police officer next in rank below a captain or a naval officer next in rank below a lieutenant commander.
He paraiweti ia i te haerenga, ina e hoki mai nei he rewheteneti (TP 1/11/1900:9). / He was a private when he went, and when he returned he was a lieutenant.
2. (loan) (personal noun) Lieutenant - a title for an army or naval officer.
Ko te haere o te ope nei he kawe mate, he tangi mate i ngā mate o te pakanga - he tangi ki ngā tamariki o Ngāti Porou i hinga ki te pakanga, he tangi ki ō rātou hoa āpiha, ki a Rewheteneti Hēnare Kōhere rāua ko tōna irāmutu, ko Kāpene Pēkama Kaa (TKO 31/7/1919:5). / The journey of the party was a kawe mate to weep for the dead of the war - to weep for the children of Ngāti Porou who fell in the war and to cry for their officers Lieutenant Hēnare Kōhere and his nephew, Captain Pēkama Kaa.
