Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hungarian jobbágy.

Noun

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iobāgiō m (genitive iobāgiōnis); third declension

  1. (Medieval Latin, Hungary) serf; originally, a warrior or higher-ranking freeman
    • 1055?, Andrew I of Hungary (attributed), Charter; republished as László Erdélyi, editor, A Tihanyi Apátság Kritikus Oklevelei, 1906, page 22:
      Ibidem est villa Cuest, ubi eadem ecclesia habet IIII piscatores, V vinitores cum totidem vineis, VI iobagiones.
      The town of Kövesd(?) is in the same place, where the same church has 4 fishermen, 5 vintners with the same number of vineyards, 6 serfs.

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative iobāgiō iobāgiōnēs
Genitive iobāgiōnis iobāgiōnum
Dative iobāgiōnī iobāgiōnibus
Accusative iobāgiōnem iobāgiōnēs
Ablative iobāgiōne iobāgiōnibus
Vocative iobāgiō iobāgiōnēs

Derived terms

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References

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  • Bartal, Antal (1901) “jobagio”, in A magyarországi latinság szótára [Dictionary of Hungarian Latinity] (in Hungarian), Budapest: Franklin-Társulat, page 352/3
  • János Harmatta, Iván Boronkai, et al., editors (1983– ), “iobagio”, in Lexicon Latinitatis Medii Aevi Hungariae[1], Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →OCLC