Dictionary

praedial en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɹidi.əl/ (US)
• /ˈpɹiːdɪəl/ (UK)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin praediālis, from Latin praedium (“farm, estate, land”).

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to land or its products.
2. Coming from or from the occupation of land.
3. Attached to the land (of slavery etc.); having to work on the land or an estate; deriving from the land.
   • After the Black Death many villeins, viewing enviously the high wages earned by those no longer bound to render predial services, began to think that the conditions in which they were placed were no longer generally fair. 1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2006, page 216:
   • Nothing, for instance, can be more disgraceful to human nature than the state of prædial slavery, or serfs attached to the glebe, when Malabar was under the dominion of the "mild Hindu." 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 60 (n.)

Forms

Deriveds

nonpraedial

Translations (2)

bg аграрен (Of or pertaining to the land) · bg земеделски (Having to work on the land or an estate)

praedial en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɹidi.əl/ (US)
• /ˈpɹiːdɪəl/ (UK)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin praediālis, from Latin praedium (“farm, estate, land”).

Meanings

1. A slave bound to work on the land or an estate.

Forms