feudum

Latin

Alternative forms

• feodum, fevum, feum

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

1. (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).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	feudum	feuda
Genitive	feudī	feudōrum
Dative	feudō	feudīs
Accusative	feudum	feuda
Ablative	feudō	feudīs
Vocative	feudum	feuda

Derived terms

• feudālis
• feudātōrius
• feudātus
• feudō

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’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^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016