heretog

English

Alternative forms

• heretoch

Etymology

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From Middle English heretogh, heretoȝe, from Old English heretoga, heretoha (“commander, general”), from Proto-West Germanic *haritogō, from Proto-Germanic *harjatugô (“leader of an army, duke”), equivalent to here (“army”) +‎ tow. Compare German Herzog (“duke”).

Doublet of heretoga.

Noun

heretog (plural heretogs)

1. (historical) The leader or commander of an army.
2. (historical) A marshal.

   “In the time of our Saxon ancestors, as appears from Edward the Confessor’s laws, the military force of this kingdom was in the hands of the dukes or heretochs, who were constituted through every province and county in the kingdom” – William Blackstone, volume 1

Related terms

• heretoga

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “heretog”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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