laetus.
happy, cheerful, glad
Meaning & usage
happy, cheerful, glad
fertile, luxuriant, lush, rich
Where this word comes from
Unknown; possibly related to alacer (“happy, glad, cheerful”). Often compared to lardum (“fat, bacon lard”) and largus (“abundant, bountiful”), presupposing an earlier form *lai-to and earlier *lai-es, but De Vaan finds this reconstruction problematic.
a foreign bondman who received a piece of land to cultivate, for which he paid tribute to his master; a serf.
Where this word comes from
From Gothic *𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍃 (*lēts) (attested in Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍃 (fralēts, “freeman”)), from Proto-Germanic *lētaz, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną (“to let, rent, free, release”). Attested in the Lex Salica. Cognate with Old Frisian lēt (“serf”), Old English lǣt (“serf”), English let, liege.
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