precarium

English

Noun

precarium (plural precaria)

1. A form of land tenure in which a petitioner receives a property for a specific amount of time without any change of ownership.

Latin

Adjective

precārium

1. inflection of precārius:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “precarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• precarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “precarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin