- chattel
[chattel 词源字典]
- chattel: see cattle
[chattel etymology, chattel origin, 英语词源] - 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.