portreeveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 portereve, portereve, from 古期英語 portġerēfa, from port (“a walled market town”) + ġerēfa (“reeve”). By surface analysis, port +‎ reeve.

名詞

portreeve (plural portreeves)

1. A borough-reeve: an office equivalent to a mayor (historical) in several major English towns or (dialect) in various minor boroughs of Wales and Southwest England.
   • 1772, Jacob's Law Dictionary:

     Instead of the portgreve [of London], Richard the first ordained two bailiffs, but presently after him King John granted them a mayor for their yearly magistrate.

2. (historical) A municipal office subordinate to a mayor, (especially) a bailiff.
3. (historical) A port reeve, a port warden.

派生語

• portreeveship

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "portreeve, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2006.