allodium

English

Alternative forms

• allod, alod, alodium

Etymology

From Medieval Latin allodium, from Frankish *allaud (“allodium, patrimony”, literally “entire property”), from Frankish *all (“all”) + *aud (“owndom, possessions”). Cognate with Old High German ōt (“property”), Old Saxon ōd (“estate, wealth”), Old English ēad (“possessions”).

Noun

allodium (plural allodiums or allodia)

1. (dated or historical) Freehold land or property; land held in allodial tenure, or one's title to such land.
   • 1908, Mary A. M. Marks, “In Saxon Times”, in Landholding in England, page 15:

Related terms

• allodial
• allodiary

Translations

freehold land or property

• Catalan: alou (ca)
• Chinese:

  Madarin: 自治領／自治领 (zh) (zìzhìlǐng)

• Czech: alod m, alodium n
• French: alleu (fr) m
• German: Allod (de) n, Allode (de) pl, Allodialbesitz (de) m
• Hungarian: allódium (hu)
• Italian: allodio (it) m
• Latin: allodium n (medieval)
• Polish: alodium n
• Portuguese: alódio (pt) m
• Russian: алло́д (ru) m (allód)
• Serbo-Croatian: alodij m
• Spanish: alodio (es) m

Latin

Alternative forms

• alode, alodeum, alodium, allodum, alodum
• alodis, alodus m

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *allaaud (“allodium, patrimony”, literally “whole property”); the form allodium is predominant from the 11th century.

Noun

allodium n (genitive allodiī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

1. the total property of a person, especially real property; their estate
2. hereditary property; property in general
3. (specifically) allodium, freehold

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	allodium	allodia
Genitive	allodiī	allodiōrum
Dative	allodiō	allodiīs
Accusative	allodium	allodia
Ablative	allodiō	allodiīs
Vocative	allodium	allodia

Derived terms

• allodiārius
• allodiō
• allodius

Descendants

• → English: allod, allodium
• → Hungarian: allódium
• → Italian: allodio
• → Polish: alodium
• → Portuguese: alódio
• → Spanish: alodio

References

• allodium in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “alodium”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “alodis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 36–38