dapifer

== English == === Etymology === From Medieval Latin dapifer, from Latin daps (“feast”) + -fer (“bearer”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdæpɪfə/ === Noun === dapifer (plural dapifers) (historical) The servant that brings the meat to the table at a meal. The official title of the steward in a medieval English nobleman's household. The most senior of the five great officers of state in the medieval French royal court. == Latin == === Etymology === From daps + -fer. === Pronunciation === (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈdaː.pi.fer] === Noun === dapifer m (genitive dapiferī); second declension (Medieval Latin) steward, seneschal ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er). ==== Derived terms ==== dapiferālis dapiferātus dapiferia ==== Descendants ==== English: dapifer Italian: dapifero === References === "dapifer", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “dapifer”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 301