catel

See also: cățel

Middle English

Etymology

See Modern English chattel.

Noun

catel

Property, as distinguished from rent or income.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 541-542:
  Hise tithes payed he ful faire and wel,
  Bothe of his propre swynk and his catel.
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References

catel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Old French

Noun

catel m (oblique plural cateaus or cateax or catiaus or catiax or catels, nominative singular cateaus or cateax or catiaus or catiax or catels, nominative plural catel)

(Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French) Alternative form of chatel

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