different between nobleman vs seneschal

English

Etymology

noble +? man

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?no?bl?m?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n??bl?m?n/
• Hyphenation: no?ble?man

Noun

nobleman (plural noblemen)

1. A peer; an aristocrat; ranks range from baron to king to emperor.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:nobleman

Translations

See also

• noblewoman

English

Alternative forms

• seneskal (dated or rare)

Etymology

From Middle English 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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?n??-sh?l IPA^(key): /?s?n???l/
• Hyphenation: sen?e?schal

Noun

seneschal (plural seneschals)

1. A steward, particularly (historical) one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.
   • 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Chapter 35

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

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.

Synonyms

• (steward): See steward

Derived terms

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

Translations

See also

• (equivalent medieval office in northern France): bailiff

Dutch

Noun

seneschal m (plural seneschallen or seneschals)

1. Archaic form of seneschalk.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• seneschall, senyschall, senescal, senescall, synechall, syneschall, seneshal
• (Late ME) senesciall, senceall, sencial, senciall

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n?st?al/, /?s?ni?al/, /?s?nit?al/, /?s?niskal/

Noun

seneschal (plural seneschals)

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

Descendants

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

References

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• seneschall

Noun

seneschal m (oblique plural seneschaus or seneschax or seneschals, nominative singular seneschaus or seneschax or seneschals, nominative plural seneschal)

1. seneschal
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     "Oïl, mout m'an sovient il bien.
     Seneschaus, savez vos an rien?

     Yes, I remember it well.

     Senschal, do you know anything about it?

Descendants

• Middle French: seneschal, senechal
  • French: sénéchal
• ? Middle Armenian: ???????? (seneskal), ???????? (sen?skal), ???????? (senes?al), ??????? (sini?al), ??????? (sin?gal)
• ? Middle Dutch: seneschal, seneschael
  • Dutch: seneschalk, seneschaal, seneschael, seneschalck
• ? Middle English: seneschal, senescall, seneschall
  • English: seneschal
  • Scots: senescall, seneschall (obsolete)
• ? Middle High German: seneschalc, sëneschalt, seneschlant, scheneschlant (also possibly from Middle Latin)
  • German: Seneschall