2013-01-14

Cubiculum

XIII–XV a. Vokiečių ordino valstybėje buvo 20-25 komtūrijos, stambesni administraciniai teritoriniai vienetai – (vok. Komtureien).

Komtūras
– pareigos Vokiečių ordine ir Livonijos ordine, analogiškos kitų riterių ordinų komandorams. Komtūras vadovavo komtūrijai (vok. Kommende ar Komturei, angl. commandry). Komtūrams pavaldūs buvo prokuratoriai.

Eine Kommende (Betonung auf der 2. Silbe; von lat.: commendare „anvertrauen, empfehlen“)

commendator (plural commendators)

(obsolete) A cleric who held a commendam.

commendam (plural commendams)

(obsolete) A vacant benefice commended to a cleric until an incumbent was provided

incumbent

From Middle English, from stem incumbent-, of Medieval Latin incumbēns (“holder of a church position”), from Latin present participle of incumbō (“I lie down upon”).

incumbent (plural incumbents)

The current holder of an office, such as ecclesiastical benefice or an elected office.  
(business) A holder of a position as supplier to a market or market segment that allows the holder to earn above-normal profits.

Verb

present active incumbō, present infinitive incumbere, perfect active incumbuī. (no passive)

I lay oneself upon; I lean or recline on something.
I press down on, fall upon (e.g. one's sword)

incumbent (n.)
early 15c., "person holding a church position," from M.L. incumbentem (nom. incumbens) "holder of a church position," noun use of prp. of incumbere "to obtain or possess," from L. incumbere "recline on," figuratively "apply oneself to," from in- "on" (see in- (2)) + -combere "lie down," related to cubare "to lie" (see cubicle). Extended to holders of any office from 1670s.

cubicle (n.)
mid-15c., "bedroom," from Latin cubiculum "bedroom," from cubare "to lie down," originally "bend oneself," from PIE root *keu(b)- "to bend, turn." With Latin -clom, suffix denoting place. Obsolete from 16c. but revived 19c. for "dormitory sleeping compartment," sense of "any partitioned space" (such as a library carrel or, later, office work station) is first recorded 1926.



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