Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Middle English form of
cattle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with
rent , orincome .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
property , as distinguished fromrent orincome
Etymologies
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Cattle, the OED says, comes from Middle English catel, which is an adoption into English of the same word in Old Northern French, which in turn comes from the Latin capitale.
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Cattle, the OED says, comes from Middle English catel, which is an adoption into English of the same word in Old Northern French, which in turn comes from the Latin capitale.
What’s the singular form of ‘cattle’? « Motivated Grammar 2010
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Meanwhile, the “any wealth or property” meaning was relegated to “chattel”, which also came from Northern French catel.
What’s the singular form of ‘cattle’? « Motivated Grammar 2010
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I wonder if the technical singular “head” is related to Latin caput, as catel indirectly is, or is that just a weird coincidence?
What’s the singular form of ‘cattle’? « Motivated Grammar 2010
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Trubiggs, Atlantic Avenue, Boston, that Mr. “Ren” was to be “ship 1st poss. catel boat right away and charge my acct. fee paid Baraieff.”
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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Wrenn regretfully exchanged ten dollars for a card informing Trubiggs, Atlantic Avenue, Boston, that Mr. "Ren" was to be "ship 1st poss. catel boat right away and charge my acct. fee paid Baraieff."
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Ahuia cana catella nechyapinauia, _q. n._, catel nechpinauia ca monechuelmati.
Rig Veda Americanus Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl Various 1868
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T inks 4G deal with A.catel-Lucent, Ericsson minister A. Raja is not in favour of state-run BSNL issuing a fresh tender to buy GSM equipment for expansion.
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This increase came at the expense of Nokia Siemens Network, Al¬catel-Lucent, Nortel and Samsung.
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_Ysla de mindanao_ La ysla de mindanao es muy grande qe se entiende ques la mas grande qe ay en todo lo qe esta descubierto asta àgora aunqe en ella Ay poca gente de paz porqe no ay sino es alguna poca y esa es en la playa esta descubierto della que los españoles an andado, como çiento y çinquenta leguas, desde el Rio de catel asta el Rio prinçipal que llaman mindanao, desde la çiudad de çubu a la tierra mas çercana qe es dapitan, se corre el sueste y es dapitan puerto y esta enmedic de lo desCubierto de la ysla solia estar poblado àgora tiene poca gente cojese aRoz y oro porqe en toda la ysla ay labaderos y minas Pero es tan poco qe no luçe, desde Alli a la punta de la canela ay mas de treynta Rios poblados
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