Talk:Military ranks/@comment-83.21.129.210-20171110132319/@comment-77.242.185.188-20180802190423

Setnik, or sotnik in english, literally means "commander of a hundred man", so I guess centurion is a pretty good translation since not many in the western world know what a sotnik is.

Dziesiętnik translates to decurion, and I think that would have been fine, since it fits in with the roman theme they enstablished. Still, considering both decurions and lance corporals are the lowest ranked NCOs it's a decent translation.

Also, one of the possible etymologies for lance corporal is from the medieval term "lance", meaning a unit of 10 men. Compare this with decurion, meaning "commander of ten men" and you can guess why they chose this particular translation.

I still think decurion would have been better though.