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Borrowed from Italian mandamento. Doublet of mandement.

mandamento (plural mandamentos)

  1. mandamento (former type of Italian administrative district; territory ruled by a praetor)
  2. mandamento (territory ruled by a Sicilian Mafia clan, under a capomandamento (“family boss”))

From mandare +‎ -mento.

mandamento m (plural mandamenti)

  1. a former type of Italian administrative district, under the jurisdiction of a pretore (“praetor”) (magistrate)
  2. the territory of a Cosa Nostra (“Sicilian Mafia”) clan (its mandate territory, mandatory, commandery)

mandamento m (plural mandamentos)

  1. (chiefly biblical) commandment (command or edict)

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