Seneschalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• seneskal (dated or rare)

語源

From 中期英語 seneschal (recorded in English since 1393), from Old French seneschal, from Medieval Latin siniscalcus, from Frankish *siniskalk, from Proto-Germanic *siniskalkaz, from Proto-Germanic *siniz (“senior”) + *skalkaz (“servant”); latter term as in marshal. As an officer of the French crown, via French sénéchal.

発音

• enPR: sĕnʹə-shəl, IPA: /ˈsɛnəʃəl/
• ハイフネーション: sen‧e‧schal

名詞

seneschal (plural seneschals)

1. A steward, particularly (historical) one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 131:

     Beside stood seneschals, the appointed witnesses of the ensuing games.

   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 35, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:

     […] so the very keenest seneskal can't see no sign […]

   • 1964, Jan Morris, “Four Cities”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:

     It was in the queer little Church of Vera Cruz, beneath the castle, that the Knights Templar performed their secret rites of chivalry, standing vigil over their arms all night, in all the mysterious splendour of seneschal, gonfalon, and accolade.

2. (historical) An officer of the crown in late medieval and early modern France who served as a kind of governor and chief justice of the royal court in Normandy and Languedoc.

同意語

• (steward): See steward

派生語

• (office; term): seneschalship
• (office; term; purview): seneschalty

参考

• (equivalent medieval office in northern France): bailiff

アナグラム

• Senechals

語源

From Old French seneschal, from Medieval Latin siniscalcus, from Frankish *siniskalk, from Proto-Germanic *siniskalkaz.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɛnɛstʃal/, /ˈsɛniʃal/, /ˈsɛnitʃal/, /ˈsɛniskal/

名詞

seneschal (plural seneschals)

1. A steward in charge of a nobleman's estate.
2. A viceroy; one governing in place of a ruler.

派生した語

• English: seneschal
• Scots: senescall, seneschall (obsolete)

参照

• “seneshal, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.