conestable

Middle English

Noun

conestable

1. Alternative form of constable

Old French

Etymology

Univerbation of Late Latin comes stabulī.

Noun

conestable oblique singular, m (oblique plural conestables, nominative singular conestables, nominative plural conestable)

1. a military officer

Descendants

• → Armenian: գունդստաբլ (gundstabl)
• → Middle English: constable, conestable, connestabil, connestable, constabil, cunstable; cunestable (Early Middle English)
  • English: constable
  • Scots: constable
• French: connétable
  • → Dutch: connétable
  • → English: connétable (learned)
• → Byzantine Greek: κοντόσταβλος (kontóstablos)
  • Greek: κοντόσταβλος (kontóstavlos)
• → Irish: constábla
• → Italian: conestabile
• Norman: counnétablle, connêtabl'ye
• → Portuguese: condestável