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Middle English
Etymology
See Modern English chattel.
Noun
catel
- Property, as distinguished from rent or income.
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC, lines
541-542:
Hise tithes payed he ful faire and wel,
Bothe of his propre swynk and his catel.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
Old French
Noun
catel oblique singular, m (oblique plural cateaus or cateax or catiaus or catiax or catels, nominative singular cateaus or cateax or catiaus or catiax or catels, nominative plural catel)
- (Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French) Alternative form of chatel