Latin

Alternative forms

• feodum

Noun

feudum n ‎(genitive feudī); second declension

1. A fief, fee.
   • 1792, Sir Martin Wright, Introduction to the law of tenures, 21

     ea conventio a feudo degenerat cujus eſt Natura ut incerta ſint ſervitia

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• feudālis
• feudātōrius
• feudātus
• feudō

Descendants

• English: feud, fief
• French: fief
• Italian: feudo
• Spanish: feudo
• Romanian: feud

References

• FEUDUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “feudum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• feudum in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

1. ↑ “feudo” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2
2. ↑ “fief”; in: Jacqueline Picoche, Jean-Claude Rolland, Dictionnaire étymologique du français, Paris 2009, Dictionnaires Le Robert, ISBN 978-2-84902-424-9
3. ↑ http://www.diccionari.cat/lexicx.jsp?GECART=0063693