sýslumaður

Icelandic

Etymology

sýsla (administrative district, county) + maður (person)

Noun

sýslumaður m (genitive singular sýslumanns, nominative plural sýslumenn)

  1. county magistrate, in particular the chief official in a type of an administrative district that exists in Iceland and the Faroe Islands (previously also the Nordic countries) known as a sýsla. Similar positions in Anglophone countries are sheriff and county commissioner.

Declension

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