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baron
Baron is a title of honour, often hereditary, and ranks as one of the lower titles in the various nobiliary systems of Europe. The female equivalent is Baroness.
==Etymology==
The word ''baron'' comes from the Old French ''baron'', from a Late Latin ''baro'' "man; servant, soldier, mercenary" (so used in Salic Law; Alemannic Law has ''barus'' in the same sense). The scholar Isidore of Seville in the 7th century thought the word was from Greek βαρύς "heavy" (because of the "heavy work" done by mercenaries), but the word is presumably of Old Frankish origin, cognate with Old English ''beorn'' meaning "warrior, nobleman". Cornutus in the first century already reports a word ''barones'' which he took to be of Gaulish origin. He glosses it as meaning ''servos militum'' and explains it as meaning "stupid", by reference to classical Latin ''bārō'' "simpleton, dunce";〔''servos militum, qui utique stultissimi sunt, servos videlicet stultorum''〕 because of this early reference, the word has also been suggested to derive from an otherwise unknown Celtic ''
*bar'', but the Oxford English Dictionary takes this to be "a figment".〔OED; see also (Online Etymology Dictionary )〕
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