emphyteusis

== English == === Etymology === From Latin emphyteusis, from Ancient Greek ἐμφύτευσις (emphúteusis, “tenure of a type of leasehold”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛmfɪˈtjuːsɪs/ === Noun === emphyteusis (plural emphyteuses) (law) A right to enjoyment of property with a given stipulation that the property will be improved or maintained in an agreed upon manner; long leasehold ==== Usage notes ==== In the Province of Québec this is a right occasionally given to people maintaining government property for periods between 10 and 100 years at a time. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === emphyteusis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Latin == === Alternative forms === emphiteōsis, emphiteōzis, emphitēsis, emphitheōsis, emphitiōsis, emphitōsis, emphyteōsis, enfitheōsis (Medieval Latin) === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἐμφῠ́τευσῐς (emphŭ́teusĭs, literally “an implanting”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛm.pʰyˈtɛu̯.sɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [em.fiˈtɛːu̯.sis] === Noun === emphyteusis f (genitive emphyteusis or emphyteuseōs or emphyteusios); third declension (Late Latin, law) emphyteusis, (a tenure of) hereditary leasehold, copyhold (a permanent tenure of land upon condition of cultivating it properly, and paying a stipulated rent, a sort of fee-farm) Synonym: feōdifirma f (Mediaeval Latin, Britain) (Medieval Latin, England) a grafting ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem). 1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: emphyteusis → Italian: enfiteusi → Portuguese: enfiteuse → Spanish: enfiteusis via Medieval Latin emphyteōsis → French: emphytéose → Romanian: emfiteoză === References === === Further reading === “emphyteusis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “emphyteusis”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC “emphy̆teusis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 587. “EMPHYTEUSIS”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin