villanus

== Latin == === Etymology === From vīlla + -ānus (adjectival suffix). === Pronunciation === (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vilˈlaː.nus] === Adjective === vīllānus (feminine vīllāna, neuter vīllānum); first/second-declension adjective (Medieval Latin) Of or pertaining to a vill, town or city. Of or pertaining to a village or the countryside. Of or pertaining to villeinage. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === Noun === vīllānus m (genitive vīllānī); second declension (Medieval Latin) A villein: a serf or bondsman of a manorial lord. A villager or other rural resident (opposed to burgensis). A townsman. (Anglo-Saxon England) A churl or geneat: a free peasant or retainer. (Spain) A type of freeman, lower-ranking than an infanzón. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === Smith, William Charles (1878), "Borough" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 62: “The burgensis, or inhabitant of a walled town, was opposed to villanus, or inhabitant of the villa, or open town.” "villani", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “villanus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “villanus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 1103–4