heahgerefaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈxæ͜ɑːx.jeˌreː.fɑ/, [ˈhæ͜ɑːx.jeˌreː.vɑ]

名詞

hēahġerēfa n

1. a title apparently higher in rank than a ġerēfa (“reeve”)
   • c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints

     [Commodus] hine ġesette tō hēahġerefan ofer Alexandrian

     [Commodus] appointed him hēahġerefa over Alexandria

使用する際の注意点

The title is also used to refer to high ranking foreign officials.

語形変化

参照

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “heáh-geréfa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.