Etymology

benefice

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Today it means: Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it. Full definition →

Old French benefice ← Latin beneficium
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frombeneficium
  2. Old French · derived frombenefice
  3. English todaybenefice

From Old French benefice, from Latin beneficium.

Words from the same roots

Latinbeneficium all →

beneficialbeneficium

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.