vassal
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- vasal (rare)
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French vassal, from Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish uassos (“young man, squire”)
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æsəl
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia vassal (plural vassals)
- (historical) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
- A subject; a dependant; a servant; a slave.
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[edit] Translations
the grantee of a fief
A servant
[edit] Adjective
vassal (not comparable)
[edit] Translations
Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile
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- French: vassal m.
[edit] Verb
vassal (third-person singular simple present vassals, present participle vassalling, simple past and past participle vassalled)
- (transitive) To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
- (transitive) To subordinate to someone or something.
[edit] Translations
to treat as a vassal
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to subordinate to someone
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Old French vassal, from Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish uassos (“young man, squire”)
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[edit] Adjective
vassal m. (f. vassale, m. plural vassaux, f. plural vassales)
[edit] Noun
vassal m. (plural vassaux; feminine vassale, plural vassales)
- a vassal
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[edit] Old French
[edit] Noun
vassal m. (oblique plural vassaus, nominative singular vassals, nominative plural vassal)
[edit] Descendants
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