different between labourer vs adscript

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?le?.b?.??/

Noun

labourer (plural labourers)

1. Britain standard spelling of laborer.

Anagrams

• rubeolar

French

Etymology

From Middle French labourer, from Old French laborer, borrowed from Latin lab?r?re, present active infinitive of lab?r?. Replaced the Old French arer (“to plough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.bu.?e/

Verb

labourer

1. (transitive) to plough

Conjugation

Derived terms

• labourage
• laboureur

Further reading

• “labourer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French laborer.

Verb

labourer

1. to work (to do work); to labor
2. to manufacture; to make (in a work context)

Descendants

• French: labourer

References

• labourer on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

English

Etymology

From Latin adscriptus, past participle of adscribere (“to enroll”). See ascribe.

Noun

adscript (plural adscripts)

1. A feudal serf or labourer who is attached to an estate and sold or transferred with it.
2. (typography) Something written or printed immediately after another character and aligned with it.

See also

• subscript
• superscript

Adjective

adscript (not comparable)

1. Held to service as attached to the soil; said of feudal serfs.

Translations

Verb

adscript (third-person singular simple present adscripts, present participle adscripting, simple past and past participle adscripted)

1. (transitive) To hold (a person) to service as attached to the soil; said of feudal serfs.

Anagrams

• practis'd