title: Scabinus
text: # Scabinus
  
  Scabinus, sometimes translated as alderman or assessor, was a medieval and early modern municipal office in Continental Europe.
  
  It continued into the present day under a variety of vernacular names:
  
  * échevin or eschevin in French
  * scabino in Italian
  * Schöffe in German
  * Schäffe in Luxembourgish
  * schepen in Dutch
  * šepmistr in Czech
  
  The equivalent office in southern France and Catalonia was consul or, in Toulouse, capitoul.
  
  