Where does “metayage” come from?
metayage (English) comes from French métayage, from French métayer, from Old French moitoier, from Late Latin medietarius, from Latin medius, from Latin locus, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Italic stlokos — to put, to place; to locate.
metayage (English): A kind of sharecropping system
Definitions
- A kind of sharecropping system
Ancestry of “metayage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | métayage | sharecropping, farming to halves |
| 2 | French | métayer | sharecropper, metayer |
| 3 | Old French | moitoier | — |
| 4 | Late Latin | medietarius | — |
| 5 | Latin | medius | middle; half; moderate |
| 6 | Latin | locus | place, spot; a passage of literature; "in the... |
| 7 | Old Latin | stlocus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | stlokos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | stel- | to put, to place; to locate |