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noun a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
adjective of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord
adjective owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign
originFrom the Latin feudātōrius, from the Mediaeval Latin feudāre (“to enfeoff”), from feudum, feodum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0