![]() When land replaced currency as the primary store of value, the Germanic word *fehu-ôd replaced the Latin word beneficium. The most widely held theory is put forth by Marc Bloch that it is related to the Frankish term *fehu-ôd, in which *fehu means "cattle" and -ôd means "goods", implying "a moveable object of value". The origin of the feudum and why it replaced beneficium has not been well established, but there are multiple theories, described below. The first attested instance of this is from 984, although more primitive forms were seen up to one hundred years earlier. ![]() Later, the term feudum, or feodum, began to replace beneficium in the documents. In medieval Latin European documents, a land grant in exchange for service continued to be called a beneficium (Latin). In ancient Rome, a " benefice" (from the Latin noun beneficium, meaning "benefit") was a gift of land ( precaria) for life as a reward for services rendered, originally, to the state. ![]() Look up fief in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ![]()
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