vassallaticum

Latin

Alternative forms

bassallāticum, vassalāticum, vassalliticum
vassallāgium (reborrowed from Romance)
vassallicium

Etymology

From vassallus +‎ -āticum. Attested from the late eighth century CE.[1]

Noun

vassallāticum n (genitive vassallāticī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

vassalage (status of being a vassal)

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vassallāticum	vassallātica
Genitive	vassallāticī	vassallāticōrum
Dative	vassallāticō	vassallāticīs
Accusative	vassallāticum	vassallātica
Ablative	vassallāticō	vassallāticīs
Vocative	vassallāticum	vassallātica

Descendants

Catalan: vassallatge
Old French: vasselage (see there for further descendants)
Gascon: vassalhatge
Occitan: vassalatge

References

vassallaticum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “vassallaticum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 815

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