Etymology

vidame

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Today it means: One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later were given status of fiefs, and became feudal nobles. Full definition →

Middle French vidame ← Latin vice-dominus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromvice“instead of”
  2. Latin · derived fromvice-dominus
  3. Middle French · borrowed fromvidame
  4. English todayvidame

Borrowed from Middle French vidame, from Latin vice-dominus, from Latin vice (“instead of”) + dominus (“master, lord”).

Words from the same roots

Latinvice all →

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