Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

praedial

/ˈpɹidi.əl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: prae-di-al
IPA: /ˈpɹidi.əl/

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to land or its products.

adj

Coming from or from the occupation of land.

adj

Attached to the land (of slavery etc.); having to work on the land or an estate; deriving from the land.

noun

A slave bound to work on the land or an estate.

Example Sentences

"Nothing, for instance, can be more disgraceful to human nature than the state of prædial slavery, or serfs attached to the glebe, when Malabar was under the dominion of the "mild Hindu.""
"After the Black Death many villeins, viewing enviously the high wages earned by those no longer bound to render predial services, began to think that the conditions in which they were placed were no longer generally fair."

Etymology

From Medieval Latin praediālis, from Latin praedium (“farm, estate, land”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: *wedʰ-, -, praedium

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈpɹidi.əl/
British English: /ˈpɹiːdɪəl/

Inflected Forms

more praedial (comparative) most praedial (superlative) prædial (alternative) predial (alternative) praedials (plural)

Derived Forms

nonpraedial

Rhymes With

medial remedial ventromedial dorsomedial anteromedial posteromedial predial stapedial submedial intermedial bimedial superomedial

Questions

How do you pronounce praedial?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpɹidi.əl/.
What does praedial mean?: Of or pertaining to land or its products.
Where does praedial come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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