virgata

Latin

Pronunciation

• virgāta: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯irˈɡaː.ta/, [u̯ɪrˈɡäːt̪ä]
• virgāta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /virˈɡa.ta/, [virˈɡäːt̪ä]
• virgātā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯irˈɡaː.taː/, [u̯ɪrˈɡäːt̪äː]
• virgātā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /virˈɡa.ta/, [virˈɡäːt̪ä]

Etymology 1

A calque of the Old English gerd (“branch, rod, yard, yardland”) formed from virga + -āta

Noun

virgāta f (genitive virgātae); first declension

1. The yardland or virgate, an English land measure usually comprising ¼ of a hide and notionally equal to 30 acres.

Usage notes

The hide was originally intended to represent the amount of land farmed by a single household but was primarily connected to obligations owed to the Saxon and Norman kings and thus varied greatly from place to place. Around the time of the Domesday Book under the Normans, the hide was usually but not always the land expected to produce £1 (1 Tower pound of sterling silver) in income over the year, meaning the yardland was expected to produce 60 d. (3 Tower ounces of sterling silver). In fact, the yardland became associated with its own obligations and thus also varied, in some places being reckoned as one sixth of a hide rather than one quarter.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	virgāta	virgātae
Genitive	virgātae	virgātārum
Dative	virgātae	virgātīs
Accusative	virgātam	virgātās
Ablative	virgātā	virgātīs
Vocative	virgāta	virgātae

Descendants

• English: virgate

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

virgāta

1. inflection of virgātus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

virgātā

1. ablative feminine singular of virgātus

References

• virgata in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)