Scherge
German
Etymology
From Middle High German scherge, from Old High German skerio (“troop leader”), from Old High German scara (“troop”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃɛʁɡə/
- Hyphenation: Scher‧ge
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Noun
Scherge m (weak, genitive Schergen, plural Schergen, feminine Schergin)
- henchman
- 1799, Friedrich Schiller, Wallensteins Tod [Wallenstein's Death] (Wallenstein trilogy):
- Der freie Mann, der mächtige allein / Gehorcht dem schönen menschlichen Gefühl. / Wir aber sind nur Schergen des Gesetzes, / Des grausamen; Gehorsam heißt die Tugend, […]
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- 1851, Heinrich Heine, “Disputation”, in Romanzero, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:
- Er erzählte: wie der Herr / Vor den Schergen des Herodes / Nach Ägypten floh, und später / Litt die herbe Pein des Todes
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- (archaic) Synonym of Gerichtsdiener
Declension
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Further reading
- Scherge on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Scherge” in Duden online
- “Scherge” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Scherge”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 628
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