chattel

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Tangible, movable property.
    — […] although of course the firm had changed hands many times over the centuries, […] But the box has always been part of the chattels, as it were.
  2. A slave.
    — Not all his servants and chattels are wraiths!

词形变化

chattels plural

词汇关系

衍生词
chattelhood chattel house chattelism chattel paper chattelship chattel slavery human chattel
相关词
capital cattle

词源

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”.
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