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A batman is the personal assistant (attendant or servant) of an officer in Britsh military service. Or the person allocated to a company of military personnel to take charge of cooking utensils etc of the company.

The word is short for bat-horse man. The bat-horse was the horse used by the bat-horse man to carry non-combatant items by saddle pack.

Bat-horse is from

* French bât= packsaddle (from Latin bastum(noun), derivative of bastāre (verb) to carry, from Greek bastân, a re-formation of Greek bastázein to lift, carry,

* + horse,

* + man

= = .... becomes bat-horse man, which was shortened to bat man, then batman.

Compare French cheval de bât =pack-horse.

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