proprietarial
/pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛɹi.əl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to proprietarians or proprietarianism (in colonial North America).
adj
Proprietary or proprietorial; pertaining to property or ownership (of property).
Example Sentences
- "In Charleston, the aftermath of the Yamassee War was one of reorganization, regulation and a massive political shift as the colony moved from proprietarial control to become a royal colony."
- "They extended the proprietarial and contractual provisions of emerging commercial law to seize local peasant debtors as slaves, [...] ‘Proprietarial’ interests in both outsiders and local debtors, commercialized for purposes of negotiability, thus appeared several millennia ago in Mesopotamia. However, to construe these atypical transactions [...] as defining of ‘slavery’, would then indulge the selective fallacy of origins — in relation to modern thoroughly proprietarial slavery [...]"
Etymology
Perhaps proprietary + -al influenced by proprietorial, or perhaps a variant of the latter influenced by the former.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: proprietary
- Suffix: -al
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛɹi.əl/
- British English: /pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛəɹi.əl/