emphyteosis

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐμφῠ́τευσῐς (emphŭ́teusĭs, literally “an implanting”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /em.pʰyˈte.o.sis/, [ɛmpʰʏˈt̪eɔs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /em.fiˈte.o.sis/, [emfiˈt̪ɛːos̬is]

Noun

emphyteosis f (genitive emphyteosis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin, law, Ancient Rome) emphyteusis; the practice of leasing emphyteuma (type of hereditary leasehold in Roman law granted for the purpose of cultivation)
   • 1543, Francesco Zabarella, Filippo Franchi, Niccolò Soranzo, Johannes de Gradibus, Jean Ausoult, Celeberrimi Iurisconulti Do. Francisci Cardinalis Zabarellae Commentaria in Clementinarum Volumen, ad Multorum Exemplarium Fidem Iam Recens Innumeris Penè Mendis Repurgata‎^[1], Stephanus Rufinus et Ioannis Ausultus, page 146:

     ita etia hic emphyteosis erit obnoria uno: quo ad hoc ꝙ ei vebebitur ſua peſio.

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2. (Medieval Latin, England) the embetterment or amelioration of something; the practice of making something better than it once was

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	emphyteosis	emphyteosēs
genitive	emphyteosis	emphyteosium
dative	emphyteosī	emphyteosibus
accusative	emphyteosem	emphyteosēs emphyteosīs
ablative	emphyteose	emphyteosibus
vocative	emphyteosis	emphyteosēs

Related terms

• emphyteota m (noun)
• emphyteuma n (noun)
• emphyteusis (adjective)
• emphyteuta m (noun)
• emphyteutarius (adjective)
• emphyteuticālis (adjective)
• emphyteuticārius m (noun)
• emphyteuticus (adjective)

References

• emphyteosis 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) 
• 1578, Thomas Cooper, Thesaurus Linguae Romanse & Britannicae‎^[2] (quotation in English; overall work in English), page 499: