feudal

From Old French feodal, from Medieval Latin feodalis, from feodum, feudum, fevum (“fief, fee”), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, owndom, property, fee”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle”). By surface analysis, feud (“estate”) +‎ -al. More at fee.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːdl̩/, [ˈfjuː.dɫ̩]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfjudəl/, [ˈfju.ɾɫ̩]

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• Homophone: futile (some US accents)
• Rhymes: -uːdəl
• Hyphenation: feud‧al

feudal (not comparable)

1. Of, or relating to feudalism.
   • 1987, Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, page 456:

     And the birth of nations implies many artifices: Not only are they constituted in an active struggle against the imperial or evolved systems, the feudal systems, and the autonomous cities, but they crush their own "minorities," in other words, minoritarian phenomena that could be termed "nationalitarian," which work from within and if need be turn to the old codes to find a greater degree of freedom.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fəwˈðal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fewˈðal]

feudal m or f (masculine and feminine plural feudals)

1. feudal

feudal

1. feudal

• feudalisme

• “feudal” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “feudal” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

• IPA^(key): /fɔɪ̯ˈdaːl/

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feudal (strong nominative masculine singular feudaler, comparative feudaler, superlative am feudalsten)

1. feudal

• Feudalismus, Feudalsystem

• “feudal” in Duden online
• “feudal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From feudo (“feud”) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: feu‧dal

feudal m or f (plural feudais, not comparable)

1. feudal
2. (euphemistic) violent

• feudalismo
• feudalmente

• “feudal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Italian feudale or French féodal. By surface analysis, feudă +‎ -al.

feudal m or n (feminine singular feudală, masculine plural feudali, feminine and neuter plural feudale)

1. feudal

• feudaliza

• IPA^(key): /feuˈdal/ [feu̯ˈð̞al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: feu‧dal

feudal m or f (masculine and feminine plural feudales)

1. feudal

• “feudal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024