fief.
Land held of a superior, particularly on condition of homage, fealty, and personal service, especially military service.
Meaning & usage
Land held of a superior, particularly on condition of homage, fealty, and personal service, especially military service.
Synonym of estate: any land, when considered as a region over which the owner exercises lordly control.
A territory, a domain, an area over which one exercises lordly control, particularly with regard to corporate or governmental bureaucracies.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French fief, from Old French fief, from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum (whence also Old French fieu, fied), from Old Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep”), from Proto-Indo-European *peku-, *peḱu- (“sheep”). Doublet of fee, feud, and feoff.
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