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Word: Peculium
Speech Type: Noun
early 17th century. From classical Latin pecūlium money or property managed by a person incapable of legal ownership, private property, in post-classical Latin also the people of God from pecū flock, herd, (plural) farm animals, occasionally also money + a suffix of uncertain origin
That which is allocated to a particular individual; a private or exclusive possession; (also) the particular concern of an individual. Also figurative.
The property which a paterfamilias allowed a member of his family, or a master allowed his slave, to hold and administer, and, within limits, to alienate, as though it were his or her own.
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