feudum

• feodum, fevum, feum

Medieval Latin feudum, feodum, fevum, feum etc. was borrowed from Old French or Old Occitan feu/fieu, which was borrowed from Frankish *fehu (“livestock, cattle”)[1], which stems from Proto-Germanic *fehu.

The -d- in feudum, feodum was inserted under influence of Latin allodium[2], also of Frankish origin.

Latin feudum is cognate to Catalan feu which is borrowed from Frankish *fehu (“livestock, cattle”).[3]

feudum n (genitive feudī); second declension

1. A fief, fee.
   • 1792, Sir Martin Wright, Introduction to the law of tenures, 21

     ea conventio a feudo degenerat cujus eſt Natura ut incerta ſint ſervitia

Second declension.

• feudālis
• feudātōrius
• feudātus
• feudō

• Asturian: feudu
• Italian: feudo
  • → Greek: φέουδον (féoudon) (Katharevousa)
    • Greek: φέουδο (féoudo) (Modern)
  • → Romanian: feudă
• Old French: feud
  • → English: feud
• Spanish: feudo
• Portuguese: feudo
• → Middle English: feudum

• feudum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• feudum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• feudum in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016