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Adjective

feudal (not comparable)

  • Of, or relating to feudalism.
    • ✤ And the birth of nations implies many artifices: Not only are they constituted in an active struggle against the imperial or evolved systems, the feudal systems, and the autonomous cities, but they crush their own “minorities,” in other words, minoritarian phenomena that could be termed “nationalitarian,” which work from within and if need be turn to the old codes to find a greater degree of freedom.1

Etymology

From Old French feodal, from Medieval Latin feodalis, from feodum, feudum, fevum (“fief, fee”), from Frankish ﹡fehu (“cattle, owndom, property, fee”), from Proto-Germanic ﹡fehu (“cattle”). By surface analysis, feud (“estate”) +‎ -al. More at fee.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfjuːdəl/, [ˈfjuː.dɫ̩]
  • (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈfju.dəl/, [ˈfju.ɾɫ̩]
    • Audio (Colorado): 🔊
  • (Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈfjʉːdəl/, (casual) [ˈfjʉː.ɾɫ̩]
  • Homophone: futile (some US accents)
  • Hyphenation: feud‧al
  • Rhymes: -uːdəl

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Footnotes

  1. 1987, Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, page 456: ↩

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