h 4 e 1 l 1 o 1 t 1
5 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
originFrom Latin Hīlōta, from Ancient Greek Εἵλωτες (Heílōtes), possibly from ἁλίσκομαι (halískomai, “to be captured, to be made prisoner”) or from Ἕλος (Hélos, “Elos”), a Laconian town.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0