ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

Professions and functions with a special statute in the past 149aprod – a boyar’s child, sent to the court for serving a lord until he wasraised to the title of boyar;armaş – the high official of a ruler who executed the capitalpunishments, who caught and condemned the rebels; he was also dealing withthe lord’s gypsies and he also brought back the fugitives;armăşel – the employee of the armaş;avgiu – a solder from a hunting body of troops in the service of the lord;başbuluc başa – the chief of the lord’s guards and of the court’s prison;becer – a boyar of an inferior rank, the substitute of the stolnic; he wasresponsible for the cellars and the kitchen of the lord;binişliu – an employee who served at the lord’s table;buhurdangiu – an employee who took care of the vessels whichperfumed the interior of the palace;cafegiu – an employee on the lord’s court, charged with making andserving the coffee;caftangiu – a lord’s employee who took care of the lord’s wardrobe;cămăraş – an employee who took care of the lord’s rooms, especially ofthe lord’s pantry;capugiu – a lord’s doorkeeper, member of a ottoman military body,composed only from trustful men who guarded the sultan and who fulfilled hissecret orders, regarding the relegation and the decapitation of the lords;ceamarşirgiu – an employee who took care of the court’s clothesceauş – name given, in the Middle Age, in Walachia and in Moldavia, tosome functionaries; among them, the leader of the lord’s hunters;chelar – a person who had the keys from the pantry or the cellar, andwho administrated the provisions;ciubucciu – an employee who filled and lightened the lord’s hookahclucer – a boyar who supervised the Court’s pantries and who was incharge with the supplying of the lord’s storehouses with wheat, wine and otherproducts;comis – high official in Moldavia and Walachia, in the Middle Age,who took care of the lord’s horses and stables, and who supplied with fodders;comişel – the helper of a comis, a man-servant at the lord’s stables;conacciu – the caretaker of the lord’s and boyar’s stables1995; Dragoş Sesan, Termeni mai puţin cunoscuţi, utilizaţi în documentele medievale, in „RevistaArhivele”, 1/1997; Lazăr Şăineanu, Dicţionar universal al limbii române, the 4 th edition, Craiova,Scrisul Românesc, 1922; Dicţionar explicativ al limbii române, the 2 nd edition, Bucureşti, UniversEnciclopedic, 1996; Veronica Tamaş, Alexandru Popescu-Mihăieşti, Lexicon de cuvinte rare şiieşite din uz, Rm. Vâlcea, The Conphys Publishing House, 2005; Alexandru Ştefulescu,Documente slavo-române relative la Gorj (1406-1665), Târgu-Jiu, 1908; idem, Istoria Târgu-Jiului, Târgu-Jiu, 1906; idem, Schitul Crasna, Bucureşti, 1910; idem, Încercare asupra istorieiTârgu-Jiului, Bucureşti, 1899; DERS; the documents collections DRH şi DIR; Micul DicţionarAcademic, Bucureşti, The Univers Enciclopedic Publishing House, 2003.