socageとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 sokage, from Anglo-Norman socage, from Old French soc (“soke”), ultimately from 古期英語 sōcn. By surface analysis, soke +‎ -age.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɒkɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈsɑkɪd͡ʒ/
• 韻: -ɒkɪdʒ

名詞

socage (countable and uncountable, plural socages)

1. (historical) In the Middle Ages (and chiefly but not exclusively medieval England), a legal system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord.
   • 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest:

     […] this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lex loci rei sitae.

   • 1908, Mary A. M. Marks, “In Saxon Times”, in Landholding in England:

     The rest was held by tenants, sometimes called "sokemen" from the "soke" or jurisdiction; and said to hold in "soccage" because they gave plough-service by way of rent.

派生語

派生語

Further reading

• socage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia