Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Condottiere \Con`dot*tie"re\, n.; pl. {Condottieri}. [It.,
   captain.]
   A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth
   centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers,
   to any party in any contest.

Source : WordNet®

condottieri
     See {condottiere}