prévôt
French
noun
Definitions
- (religion) provost
- provost-marshal
Etymology
Inherited from Old French prevost inherited from Latin praepositus (placed in command).
Origin
Latin
praepositus
Gloss
placed in command
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- provost English
- provostal English
- provostess English
- provostial English
- provostorial English
- provostry English
- provostship English
- praepositus Latin
- prōpositus Latin
- preposito Italian
- preposto Italian
- prevosto Italian
- prévôtal French
- prévôtalement French
- prévôté French
- prebostazgo Spanish, Castilian
- profost Old English
- prevost Old French
- provost Old French
- provolt xno