precarium
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English
Noun
precarium (plural precaria)
- A form of land tenure in which a petitioner receives a property for a specific amount of time without any change of ownership.
Latin
Adjective
precārium
- inflection of precārius:
References
- “precarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- precarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “precarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin