sheriff
English
/ˈʃɛɹɪf/
noun
Definitions
- (British) (High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders, law enforcement and other duties.
- (Scotland) A judge in the sheriff court, the court of a county or sheriffdom.
- (US) A government official, usually responsible for law enforcement in his county and for administration of the county jail, sometimes an officer of the court, usually elected.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English shirreve inherited from Old English scīrġerēfa (sheriff, shire-reeve) affix from English shire + English reeve.
Origin
English
reeve
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Bedfordshire English
- Blankshire English
- Loamshire English
- Londonshire English
- Monmouthshire English
- Somersetshire English
- Worcestershire English
- Yorkshire English
- hogreeve English
- landreeve English
- reeve English
- sheriffdom English
- sheriffhood English
- sheriffship English
- sheriffwick English
- shire English
- shire-reeve English
- shiremote English
- undersheriff English
- unreeve English
- unsheriff English
- wick English
- Sheriff German
- seriff Hungarian
- sheriff Spanish, Castilian
- szeryf Polish
- scīrġerēfa Old English
- sċīrġerēfa Old English
- reve Middle English
- shire Middle English
- shirevewyk Middle English
- shirreve Middle English
- shirrevehod Middle English
- skíri Icelandic
- sir Welsh
- siorrachd Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- sirriam Middle Irish