{"id":560,"date":"2007-12-10T19:12:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/constable\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T13:18:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T13:18:37","slug":"constable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; constable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Roman and Byzantine Empires of the 5th and 6th centuries AD, the <em>comes stabuli<\/em> (count of the stable) was the person in charge of the stables at the imperial court.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fool-in-the-rain\/2359791334\/in\/photolist-2ikEdTw-6jZkHe-4AwxKu-5YB8Cw-fsh4JH-T1PtgC-2mo9kVW-cHLG23-6kMnpf-8vDBBP-cHLD15-nnipE8-RMmr2P-Ajdwa-2nY2vip-55rrvg-QFA78o-Bk8z38-2iRfCGn-fKHr5-2mnjLtt-4SF1yL-zntB8f-eiEgHj-TzJ7Uz-2m6rNXe-9jsXn9-xtYmR-23EWM8F-72N6Qh-4Fh5W3-2m6MMQQ-2j8gfjc-8atCks-4KuUHn-A5WJUH-7ZJWJL-bRW4ar-r5Ym5K-9LWD9Y-8TegLw-2nNztUj-2775W-UKFhFg-2nYj2tS-bu4UZd-2jNAghz-qPhjZE-3eVH2C-4TsqRB\" title=\"Stables\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3244\/2359791334_d7c165848a_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Stables\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Franks borrowed the title but changed the position slightly to the head of the royal stud. During the 12th century in France, the <em>comes stabuli<\/em> became an important commander in the army and the title became <em>conestable<\/em> in Old French.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the word was borrowed into English as constable and referred to &#8220;an officer of the peace&#8221; &#8211; this meaning was first recorded in 1596. During the 19th century, a regular police force was established in England and the police officers were given the title constable under a chief constable.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/emaybe\/35711048115\/in\/photolist-WpEss8-9vKBh5-2mdqt2z-4vhy4F-2jZZ4GD-2n5EWv3-2n439eV-2kVq1QD-cJkGHY-ZxuC51-2jJKj2B-2fZgSBp-MAb7Yo-2n5Mxky-2jgDFoi-2n5MxfZ-2jmUw8b-2gyN4Uc-7U9wSm-2jNEJRP-dKBh6M-24C9cEC-yZ7zPE-2onpdM2-2onrJES-2iSVArn-2onqs6x-2jmUwdS-2jmUw5k-2iZn8fi-2b3euD3-2jJFJS8-hBXorv-e3j411-yJUE7P-y5oQTb-2n69zx6-9Strb8-oUTFQZ-2n3Q7M3-2jJFJW1-2j8zte5-aewJQJ-2kVq1Pb-2jCeRhK-2jqCjFu-2jqDALu-2hXrNB7-2jgAHrK-4HXDwU\" title=\"Police Constable H.189\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4130\/35711048115_735b2914a2_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Police Constable H.189\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Today, constable is the lowest <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UK_police_ranks\">rank<\/a> in the British police, followed by sergeant, while Chief Constable is the highest rank.<\/p>\n<p>Further information is available on: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/constable\">Wiktionary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Roman and Byzantine Empires of the 5th and 6th centuries AD, the comes stabuli (count of the stable) was the person in charge of the stables at the imperial court. The Franks borrowed the title but changed the position slightly to the head of the royal stud. During the 12th century in France, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10,15,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23398,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/23398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}