cantrefとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle Welsh cantref, from cant (“hundred”) + tref (“village, settlement”), the notional basis of the division.

名詞

cantref (plural cantrefs or cantrefi)

1. A mediaeval land division in Wales.
   • 2011, Sara Elin Roberts, transl., “Text and Translation”, in Llawysgrif Pomffred: An Edition and Study of Peniarth MS 259B (Medieval Law and Its Practice; 10), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 121:

     The foresitter of a cantref, namely the footholder, gives a vat of bragget to the king each year.

Further reading

• cantref on Wikipedia.Wikipedia