Etymograph

English

faldage

Faldage comes from Latin faldagium.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaldagium
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1868faldage

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfaldagium
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1868faldage

Earliest quotation: 1868, Charles Isaac Elton: “It was decided , in a case where the…”

Every English word from Latin faldagium

Today it means

noun A privilege of setting up, and moving about, sheepfolds, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them or to keep others' cattle therein. This privilege was often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.

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Etymograph / Latin faldagium / faldage

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