Seneschal (Old French; from the same roots as the Gothic sins, ‘old,’ and skalks, ‘a servant;’ compare marshal), a functionary in the household of the Frankish kings corresponding to what in England and Scotland was designed ‘steward,’ usually rendered into Latin as scnescallus.
Seneschal
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 314
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