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Latin
Etymology
From villa.
Noun
vīlicus m (genitive vīlicī); second declension
- bailiff, steward of a farm/estate
- villager
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “vilicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vilicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vilicus 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)
- vilicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “vilicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers