sýslumaður

Icelandic

Etymology

From 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

Declension of sýslumaður (masculine irreg-stem, based on maður)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sýslumaður sýslumaðurinn sýslumenn sýslumennirnir
accusative sýslumann sýslumanninn sýslumenn sýslumennina
dative sýslumanni sýslumanninum sýslumönnum sýslumönnunum
genitive sýslumanns sýslumannsins sýslumanna sýslumannanna
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