| 词汇 | constable |
| 词源 | constable. Constable, for “a police officer,” comes from the late Latin comes stabuli—any count, or officer, of the stable, or “master of the horse,” under the Theodosian Code in about a.d. 438. In England the word first meant the chief officer of the court or of the nation’s military forces. |
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