bannileuga

Latin

Alternative forms

• banleuca

Etymology

bannus (“jurisdiction”) +‎ leuga (“league, mile”); compare German Bannmeile

Noun

bannileuga f (genitive bannileugae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. area of jurisdiction; outlying area around a castle, city, etc., subject to its authority
2. fine for an offence committed in such an area

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bannileuga	bannileugae
genitive	bannileugae	bannileugārum
dative	bannileugae	bannileugīs
accusative	bannileugam	bannileugās
ablative	bannileugā	bannileugīs
vocative	bannileuga	bannileugae

Descendants

• → Old French: banlieue
  • French: banlieue
    • → English: banlieue
    • → Turkish: banliyö

References

• bannileuga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bannileuga in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “bannileuga”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill