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Etymology
Borrowed from Old French or Old Occitan feu/fieu, which was borrowed from Frankish *fehu (“livestock, cattle”), which stems from Proto-Germanic *fehu.
The -d- in feudum, feodum was inserted under influence of Latin allodium, also of Frankish origin. Or possibly the term is borrowed from Frankish *fehu-ôd.
Latin feudum is cognate to Catalan feu, which too is borrowed from Frankish *fehu. It is also a doublet of pecu, which is inherited from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu, the same source as of Germanic *fehu.
Noun
feudum n (genitive feudī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) A fief, fee.
1792, Sir Martin Wright, Introduction to the law of tenures, section 21:
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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References
- feudum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- feudum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- feudum in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- ^ “feudo” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
- ^ “fief”; in: Jacqueline Picoche, Jean-Claude Rolland, Dictionnaire étymologique du français, Paris 2009, Dictionnaires Le Robert, →ISBN
- ^ Samarrai, Alauddin (1998) “Notices on Pe'ah, Fay' and Feudum”, in Lubetski, Meir, editor, Boundaries of the ancient Near Eastern world: a tribute to Cyrus H. Gordon, Continuum International Publishing Group, pages 248-250
- ^ “feu”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024