villanus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From vīlla + -ānus (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /vilˈla.nus/, [vilˈläːnus]
Adjective
[edit]vīllānus (feminine vīllāna, neuter vīllānum); first/second-declension adjective (Medieval Latin)
- Of or pertaining to a vill, town or city.
- Of or pertaining to a village or the countryside.
- Of or pertaining to villeinage.
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | vīllānus | vīllāna | vīllānum | vīllānī | vīllānae | vīllāna | |
Genitive | vīllānī | vīllānae | vīllānī | vīllānōrum | vīllānārum | vīllānōrum | |
Dative | vīllānō | vīllānō | vīllānīs | ||||
Accusative | vīllānum | vīllānam | vīllānum | vīllānōs | vīllānās | vīllāna | |
Ablative | vīllānō | vīllānā | vīllānō | vīllānīs | |||
Vocative | vīllāne | vīllāna | vīllānum | vīllānī | vīllānae | vīllāna |
Noun
[edit]vīllānus m (genitive vīllānī); second declension (Medieval Latin)
- A villein: a serf or bondsman of a manorial lord.
- A villager or other rural resident (opposed to burgensis).
- A townsman.
- (Anglo-Saxon England) A churl or geneat: a free peasant or retainer.
- (Spain) A type of freeman, lower-ranking than an infanzón.
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vīllānus | vīllānī |
Genitive | vīllānī | vīllānōrum |
Dative | vīllānō | vīllānīs |
Accusative | vīllānum | vīllānōs |
Ablative | vīllānō | vīllānīs |
Vocative | vīllāne | vīllānī |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Smith, William Charles (1878), "Borough" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 62: “The burgensis, or inhabitant of a walled town, was opposed to villanus, or inhabitant of the villa, or open town.”
- villani 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)
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “villanus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “villanus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 1103–4
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