"chattel" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃæt.l̩/ Audio: en-us-chattel.ogg [US] Forms: chattels [plural]
Rhymes: -ætəl Etymology: From Middle English chatel, from Old French chatel, from Medieval Latin capitāle (English capital), from Latin capitālis (“of the head”), from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”). Compare the doublet cattle (“cows”), which is from an Anglo-Norman variant. Compare also capital and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|chatel}} Middle English chatel, {{der|en|fro|chatel}} Old French chatel, {{der|en|ML.|capitāle}} Medieval Latin capitāle, {{doublet|en|capital|notext=1}} capital, {{der|en|la|capitālis||of the head}} Latin capitālis (“of the head”), {{m|la|caput||head}} caput (“head”), {{m|la|-alis||-al}} -alis (“-al”), {{glossary|doublet}} doublet, {{doublet|en|cattle|notext=1|t1=cows}} cattle (“cows”), {{m|en|capital}} capital, {{m|en|kith and kine||all one’s possessions}} kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} chattel (plural chattels)
  1. Tangible, movable property. Categories (topical): Slavery Translations (tangible, movable property): eiendom (Afrikaans), движимост (dvižimost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), движимо имущество (dvižimo imuštestvo) (Bulgarian), løsøre [common-gender] (Danish), have (Dutch), goed [neuter] (Dutch), bezit [neuter] (Dutch), eigendom [neuter] (Dutch), propraĵo (Esperanto), irtain (Finnish), ben móbel [masculine] (Galician), móbel [masculine] (Galician), Habe [feminine] (German), bewegliches Gut [neuter] (German), ingóság (Hungarian), ingó vagyon (Hungarian), rirohanga (Maori), lausaeyrir [masculine] (Old Norse), ruchomość [feminine] (Polish), majątek ruchomy [masculine] (Polish), движимое иму́щество (dvižimoje imúščestvo) (Russian), lösöre [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-chattel-en-noun-jDCW4TWH Disambiguation of Slavery: 54 46 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 99 1 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 98 2 Disambiguation of 'tangible, movable property': 100 0
  2. A slave. Categories (topical): Slavery Translations (slave): slaaf (Afrikaans), orja (Finnish), sielu (Finnish), rabszolga (Hungarian), niewolnik [masculine] (Polish), раб (rab) (Russian), esclavo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-chattel-en-noun-7i224ue3 Disambiguation of Slavery: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'slave': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: chattel house, chattelism, chattel paper, chattel slavery, human chattel Related terms: capital, cattle

Inflected forms

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    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "tangible, movable property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ben móbel"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "tangible, movable property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "móbel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "tangible, movable property",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Habe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "tangible, movable property",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bewegliches Gut"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "tangible, movable property",
      "word": "ingóság"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "tangible, movable property",
      "word": "ingó vagyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "tangible, movable property",
      "word": "rirohanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "non",
      "lang": "Old Norse",
      "sense": "tangible, movable property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lausaeyrir"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "tangible, movable property",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ruchomość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "tangible, movable property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "majątek ruchomy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dvižimoje imúščestvo",
      "sense": "tangible, movable property",
      "word": "движимое иму́щество"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "tangible, movable property",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "lösöre"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "slave",
      "word": "slaaf"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "slave",
      "word": "orja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "slave",
      "word": "sielu"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "slave",
      "word": "rabszolga"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "slave",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "niewolnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rab",
      "sense": "slave",
      "word": "раб"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "slave",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "esclavo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chattel"
}

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