chattel的词源

英文词源

chattel

chattel: see cattle

chattel (n.)

early 13c., chatel "property, goods," from Old French chatel "chattels, goods, wealth, possessions, property; profit; cattle," from Late Latin capitale "property" (see cattle, which is the Old North French form of the same word). Application to slaves (1640s) is a rhetorical figure of abolitionists, etc.

中文词源

chattel：财产，动产

构成cattle的对词。因为牛在农耕文明处于非常重要的地位，因此代指财产，动产。

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