corvee

• corvée

From French corvée, from Late Latin conrogāta, derived from Latin conrogāre (“call together by entreaty”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːveɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɔːɹˈveɪ/

corvee (countable and uncountable, plural corvees)

1. Unpaid labor required by a feudal lord.
2. Labor, especially for roads or dams, in lieu of taxes.

• “corvee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. (etymology)

Borrowed from French corvée, from Middle French corvee, from Old French corvee, from Late Latin conrogāta. Doublet of karwei.

• IPA^(key): /kɔrˈveː/

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• Hyphenation: cor‧vee
• Rhymes: -eː

corvee f or n (uncountable)

1. household chores, especially at a camp or barracks
2. (historical) corvee labour

• → Indonesian: korvé