reeve

Significado (Inglês)

1. Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
2. The president of a township or municipal district council.
3. The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.

ruff

attach

stick on

chief magistrate

Freqüência

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɹiːv/

From Middle English reve, from Old English rēfa, an aphetism of ġerēfa (also groefa), from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō (“officer, official”). Compare Danish greve, Swedish greve, Dutch graaf, German Graf. The role, and eventually the word, was mostly replaced by bailiff, of Anglo-Norman origin.