emphyteusis

From Latin emphyteusis, from Ancient Greek ἐμφύτευσις (emphúteusis, “tenure of a type of leasehold”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛmfɪˈtjuːsɪs/

emphyteusis (plural emphyteuses)

1. (law) A right to enjoyment of property with a given stipulation that the property will be improved or maintained in an agreed upon manner; long leasehold

• In the Province of Québec this is a right occasionally given to people maintaining government property for periods between 10 and 100 years at a time.

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• emphiteōsis, emphiteōzis, emphitēsis, emphitheōsis, emphitiōsis, emphitōsis, emphyteōsis, enfitheōsis (Medieval Latin)

Ancient Greek ἐμφῠ́τευσῐς (emphúteusis, literally “an implanting”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /em.pʰyˈteu̯.sis/, [ɛmpʰʏˈt̪ɛu̯s̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /em.fiˈteu̯.sis/, [emfiˈt̪ɛːu̯sis]

emphyteusis f (genitive emphyteusis or emphyteuseōs or emphyteusios); third declension

1. (Late Latin, Roman law) emphyteusis, (a tenure of) hereditary leasehold, copyhold (a permanent tenure of land upon condition of cultivating it properly, and paying a stipulated rent, a sort of fee-farm)

   Synonym: feōdifirma f (Mediaeval Latin, Britain)

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

• → English: emphyteusis
• → Italian: enfiteusi
• → Portuguese: enfiteuse
• → Spanish: enfiteusis

via Medieval Latin emphyteōsis

• → French: emphytéose
  • → Romanian: emfiteoză

• “emphyteusis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “emphyteusis”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• emphy̆teusis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 587/1.
• “EMPHYTEUSIS”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin