piepowder
English edit
Etymology edit
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From the following:[1]
- Late Middle English pe-poudre, pipouder (“(noun) itinerant; travelling merchant, peddler; court of piepowders; (adverb) summarily”) [and other forms],[2] from Anglo-Norman pepoudrous, pié poudrous (“having dusty feet; an itinerant”) [and other forms] (compare Middle French pyé pouldreux (“travelling merchant”) (Poitou) (modern French pied poudreux (“one who cannot pay”) (obsolete))), from pé, pié (“foot”) + poudrous, poudrus (“dusty”); pié is derived from Old French pié (“foot”) (modern French pied), from Latin pedem, the accusative singular of pēs (“foot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step; to walk; to stumble; to fall”); while poudrous, poudrus (modern French poudreux (“dusty”)) is from Old French poudre (“dust; powder”) (from Latin pulverem, the accusative singular of pulvis (“dust; powder”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”)) + -ous (a variant of -us (suffix forming adjectives)); and
- Late Middle English pe-poudrus, pypoudrus (“for itinerants or travelling merchants”, adjective), from pe-poudre (see above).[3]
cognates
- Late Latin pede pulvericatus, pede-pulverosus, pes pulverizatus (“itinerant; travelling merchant”)
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpaɪpaʊdə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpaɪˌpaʊdɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: pie‧pow‧der
Noun edit
piepowder (plural piepowders)
- (obsolete) Chiefly in court of piepowders, etc. (sense 2): a traveller, particularly one on foot; a wayfarer; specifically, a travelling merchant.
- (British, law, historical) In full court of piepowders (also court of piepowder) or piepowder court: an ancient court in England held in conjunction with a fair or a market to administer summary justice over occurrences therein such as disputes between merchants and acts of theft and violence; they were presided over by the mayor and bailiffs of the borough, or by the steward if the fair or market was held by a lord.
Alternative forms edit
Translations edit
ancient court in England held in conjunction with a fair or a market to administer summary justice over occurrences therein
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References edit
- ^ “piepowder, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “piepowder, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “pẹ̄-poudre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “pẹ̄-pǒudrus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Further reading edit
court of piepowders on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
