English
esplees
Esplees comes from Latin expletia.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpletia
- Englishearliest quotation 1627esplees
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexpletia
- Englishearliest quotation 1627esplees
Earliest quotation: 1627, Henry Finch, Lavv: Or: “in a writ of Eſchete, in a writ of…”
Every English word from Latin expletia
Today it means
noun The full profits or products yielded by land, such as hay, pasturage, grain, rents, services, and the like.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin expletia / esplees