chattel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an item of movable personal property

   The will divided the land from the household chattels.

Simplified etymology

A chattel is a personal possession, a sense now often found in legal expressions such as “goods and chattels.” The word comes from Old French chatel, through medieval Latin capitale and Latin capitalis, “of the head,” from caput, “head.”

From Old French chatel ('property, goods'), from Late Latin capitāle ('property, stock'), from Latin caput ('head'). A doublet of cattle.

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