feudum

Latin

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feudum

Alternative forms

feodum, fevum, feum

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French or Old Occitan feu/fieu, which was borrowed from Frankish *fehu (“livestock, cattle”),^[1] which stems from Proto-Germanic *fehu.

The -d- in feudum, feodum was inserted under influence of Latin allōdium,^[2] also of Frankish origin. Or possibly the term is borrowed from Frankish *fehu-ôd.^[3]

Latin feudum is cognate to Catalan feu, which too is borrowed from Frankish *fehu.^[4] It is also a doublet of pecu, which is inherited from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu, the same root of Germanic *fehu (wherein, by action of Grimm's Law, the /p/ became /f/, and /k/ was aspirated into /h/).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛu̯.dũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛːu̯.dum]

Noun

feudum n (genitive feudī); second declension

(Medieval Latin) A fief, fee.
- 1792, Sir Martin Wright, Introduction to the law of tenures, section 21:
  ea conventio a feudo degenerat cujus eſt Natura ut incerta ſint ſervitia
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	feudum	feuda
genitive	feudī	feudōrum
dative	feudō	feudīs
accusative	feudum	feuda
ablative	feudō	feudīs
vocative	feudum	feuda

Derived terms

Descendants

Asturian: feudu
Italian: feudo
- → Greek: φέουδον (féoudon) (Katharevousa)
  - Greek: φέουδο (féoudo) (Modern)
- → Romanian: feudă
Old French: feud
Spanish: feudo
Portuguese: feudo
→ Middle English: feud
- English: feud

References

"feudum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], 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^[1], Continuum International Publishing Group, pages 248-250
^ “feu”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

[1] “feudo” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

[2] “fief”; in: Jacqueline Picoche, Jean-Claude Rolland, Dictionnaire étymologique du français, Paris 2009, Dictionnaires Le Robert, →ISBN

[3] 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^[1], Continuum International Publishing Group, pages 248-250

[4] “feu”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

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