molendinum
Latin
Etymology
From molō (“grind in a mill”).
Noun
molendīnum n (genitive molendīnī); second declension
- A milling-place, mill, mill-house.
- 1789, Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne:
- Servitium, quo feudatorii grana ſua ad Domini molendinum, ibi molenda perferre, ex conſuetudine, aſtringuntur.
- Servitude, whereby vassals are forced to carry their grains to the feudal lord's mill, therein to be ground, in accordance with custom.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Related terms
References
- “molendinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- molendinum 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)
- molendinum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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