allodium

• allod, alod, alodium

From Medieval Latin allodium, from Frankish *allaud (“allodium, patrimony”, literally “entire property”), from Frankish *all (“all”) + *aud (“owndom, possessions”). Cognate with Old High German ōt (“property”), Old Saxon ōd (“estate, wealth”), Old English ēad (“possessions”).

allodium (plural allodiums or allodia)

1. (dated or historical) Freehold land or property; land held in allodial tenure, or one's title to such land.
   • 1908, Mary A. M. Marks, “In Saxon Times”, in Landholding in England, page 15:

• allodial
• allodiary

• alode, alodeum, alodium, allodum, alodum
• alodis, alodus m

Borrowed from Frankish *allaaud (“allodium, patrimony”, literally “whole property”); the form allodium is predominant from the 11th century.

allodium n (genitive allodiī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

1. the total property of a person, especially real property; their estate
2. hereditary property; property in general
3. (specifically) allodium, freehold

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• allodiārius
• allodiō
• allodius

• → English: allod, allodium
• → Hungarian: allódium
• → Italian: allodio
• → Polish: alodium
• → Portuguese: alódio
• → Spanish: alodio

• allodium in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “alodium”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “alodis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 36–38