catel
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See also: cățel
Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See Modern English chattel.
Noun[edit]
catel
- Property, as distinguished from rent or income.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 541-542:
- Hise tithes payed he ful faire and wel,
Bothe of his propre swynk and his catel.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References[edit]
- “catel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
catel oblique singular, m (oblique plural cateaus or cateax or catiaus or catiax or catels, nominative singular cateaus or cateax or catiaus or catiax or catels, nominative plural catel)
- (Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French) Alternative form of chatel