feudal

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English

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Etymology

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From Old French feodal, from Medieval Latin feodalis, from feodum, feudum, fevum (fief, fee), from Frankish *fehu (cattle, owndom, property, fee), from Proto-Germanic *fehu (cattle). More at fee.

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feudal (not comparable)

  1. Of, or relating to feudalism.
    • 1987, Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, page 456:
      And the birth of nations implies many artifices: Not only are they constituted in an active struggle against the imperial or evolved systems, the feudal systems, and the autonomous cities, but they crush their own "minorities," in other words, minoritarian phenomena that could be termed "nationalitarian," which work from within and if need be turn to the old codes to find a greater degree of freedom.

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Catalan

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feudal m or f (masculine and feminine plural feudals)

  1. feudal

Danish

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feudal

  1. feudal
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German

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feudal (strong nominative masculine singular feudaler, comparative feudaler, superlative am feudalsten)

  1. feudal

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  • feudal” in Duden online
  • feudal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From feudo (feud) +‎ -al (of or relating to).

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  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /fewˈdal/ [fewˈðaɫ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /fewˈda.li/ [fewˈða.li]

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: feu‧dal

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feudal m or f (plural feudais, not comparable)

  1. feudal
  2. (euphemistic) violent

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Romanian

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Borrowed from Italian feudale or French féodal. By surface analysis, feudă +‎ -al.

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feudal m or n (feminine singular feudală, masculine plural feudali, feminine and neuter plural feudale)

  1. feudal

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Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /feuˈdal/ [feu̯ˈð̞al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: feu‧dal

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feudal m or f (masculine and feminine plural feudales)

  1. feudal

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