English
reddendum
Reddendum comes from Latin reddendus ‘that must be given back or yielded’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEreddendus‘that must be given back or yielded’
- Englishearliest quotation 1783reddendum
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEreddendus‘that must be given back or yielded’
- Englishearliest quotation 1783reddendum
Earliest quotation: 1783, William Cruise: “[…] the cognizance supposing a preceding gift, the cognizor…”
Every English word from Latin reddendus
Today it means
noun A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin reddendus / reddendum