English

escheator

Escheator comes from Anglo-Norman eschetour.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

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Formed from escheat + -or

Proto-Indo-European *ḱád-e-ti

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Latin cadō ‘fall’

Late Latin *excadēre ‘fall away, fall out’

Anglo-Norman eschete

Middle English escheat ‘the reversion or conversion of property to…’

Every English word from Anglo-Norman eschetour

noun A royal officer in medieval and early modern England, responsible for taking escheats from deceased subjects.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.