curtilage

== English == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle English courtelage, curtilage, curtylage (“vegetable garden; croft; gardening, farming”), from Anglo-Norman curtilage, from Old French cortillage, courtillage (modern French courtillage (obsolete); compare Medieval Latin cortilagium, curtilagium), from cortil, cortill (“small court, garth”) + -age (suffix denoting a relationship with a place). Cortil, cortill are derived from cort, curt (“court of a monarch”) + -il (suffix forming place names); and cort, curt from Latin cōrtem, the accusative singular form of cōrs, a variant of cohors (“court; enclosure; farmyard; etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; near; with”) + *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɜːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/ (General American) enPR: kûrʹtəl-ĭj, IPA(key): /ˈkɜɹtəlɪd͡ʒ/, [-ɾə-] Hyphenation: curt‧il‧age === Noun === curtilage (plural curtilages) (chiefly property law) A small piece of land, such as a garth or yard with the buildings and structures on it, immediately surrounding a dwelling house and legally regarded as part of its property; originally, such areas were enclosed by a fence or wall. Synonym: grounds Coordinate term: messuage ==== Alternative forms ==== courtlage, courtledge (Southern England, West Country) ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== ambit (“(obsolete) grounds or precincts of a place”) === References === === Further reading === curtilage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === cutigeral, graticule == Middle English == === Alternative forms === cortilage, curtelage, curtylage corlage, corlege, cortlege, curlege, curtlege, curtlyge, curlyche (Suffolk); curtlage (Promptorium Parvulorum) courtelage (Middlesex); curtelag (Surrey); courtelayge, courtlage (Warwickshire) === Etymology === Borrowed from Old French cortillage, curtillage; compare court. First attested in c. 1330. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kurtiˈlaːd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈkurtilad͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈkur(t)lad͡ʒ(ə)/ === Noun === curtilage (chiefly Late Middle English; East Anglia, East Saxon, Southern) A small vegetable garden surrounding a house; a croft. (rare) The care of such a garden; gardening. ==== Descendants ==== English: curtilage, courtledge, courtlage ==== References ==== “curtilāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.