emphyteusis
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English
Etymology
From Latin emphyteusis, from Ancient Greek ἐμφύτευσις (emphúteusis, “tenure of a type of leasehold”).
Pronunciation
Noun
emphyteusis (plural emphyteuses)
- (law) A right to enjoyment of property with a given stipulation that the property will be improved or maintained in an agreed upon manner; long leasehold
- 1991, Paul Freedman, The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 147:
- The term “emphyteusis” first appeared late in the twelfth century. It remained a rather artificial term, appearing in official documents but rare in leases themselves until the later thirteenth century. It clearly meant a long-term lease but lawyers expended a certain amount of energy trying to relate emphyteusis to other categories of usufruct (ius in re aliena). Opinion divided, broadly speaking, between those who regarded emphyteusis as resembling normal establishments of peasants by lease, and those who saw an emphyteutic tenure as a sort of fief.
Usage notes
- In the Province of Québec this is a right occasionally given to people maintaining government property for periods between 10 and 100 years at a time.
Related terms
Translations
qualified right to enjoyment of property
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Further reading
emphyteusis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Alternative forms
- emphiteōsis, emphiteōzis, emphitēsis, emphitheōsis, emphitiōsis, emphitōsis, emphyteōsis, enfitheōsis (Medieval Latin)
Etymology
Ancient Greek ἐμφῠ́τευσῐς (emphúteusis, literally “an implanting”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /em.pʰyˈteu̯.sis/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /em.fiˈteu̯.sis/,
Noun
emphyteusis f (genitive emphyteusis or emphyteuseōs or emphyteusios); third declension
- (Late Latin, Roman law) emphyteusis, (a tenure of) hereditary leasehold, copyhold (a permanent tenure of land upon condition of cultivating it properly, and paying a stipulated rent, a sort of fee-farm)
- Synonym: feōdifirma f (Mediaeval Latin, Britain)
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | emphyteusis | emphyteusēs emphyteuseis |
| genitive | emphyteusis emphyteuseōs emphyteusios |
emphyteusium |
| dative | emphyteusī | emphyteusibus |
| accusative | emphyteusim emphyteusin emphyteusem1 |
emphyteusēs emphyteusīs |
| ablative | emphyteusī emphyteuse1 |
emphyteusibus |
| vocative | emphyteusis emphyteusi |
emphyteusēs emphyteuseis |
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
Related terms
- emphyteuma n (noun)
- emphyteuta m (noun)
- emphyteuticus (adjective)
Descendants
- → English: emphyteusis
- → Italian: enfiteusi
- → Portuguese: enfiteuse
- → Spanish: enfiteusis
- → French: emphytéose
- → Romanian: emfiteoză
Further reading
- “emphyteusis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “emphyteusis”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- emphy̆teusis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 587/1.
- “EMPHYTEUSIS”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin