English
landdrost
Landdrost comes from Dutch landdrost ‘an official and magistrate in rural…’, and goes back to Middle Dutch landdrost.
- Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500landdrost
- Dutchc. 1500–presentsame form‘an official and magistrate in rural jurisdictions during the Ancien Régime’
- Englishearliest quotation 1979same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500landdrost
- Dutchc. 1500–presentsame form‘an official and magistrate in rural jurisdictions during the Ancien Régime’
- Englishearliest quotation 1979same form
Earliest quotation: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season: “Remember the words of the young Bibault in the…”
Every English word from Middle Dutch landdrost
Today it means
noun A type of magistrate in South Africa, abolished under the British in 1827.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle Dutch landdrost / landdrost