feudal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Of, or relating to feudalism.

   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.

2. 2
   adj

   of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism

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Simplified etymology

Feudal is recorded from the early 17th century and is related to fee. Fee came from Old French feu or fief and was originally associated with the medieval system of holding land in exchange for service.

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”). By surface analysis, feud (“estate”) + -al. More at fee.

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