different between tenure vs mailo

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman, from Old French tenure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from Latin tentus (from tene?) + -ura.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?n.j??/, /?t?n.j?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?n.j?/

Noun

tenure (countable and uncountable, plural tenures)

1. A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.

   • All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.

2. A period of time during which something is possessed.
3. A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
4. A right to hold land under the feudal system.

Synonyms

• (a status of possessing a thing or an office): incumbency

Derived terms

• tenure-track

Related terms

• tenant
• tenurial

Translations

Verb

tenure (third-person singular simple present tenures, present participle tenuring, simple past and past participle tenured)

1. (transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).

Translations

Anagrams

• neuter, retune, run tee, tureen, untree

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.ny?/

Noun

tenure f (plural tenures)

1. (historical) tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• eurent, neutre, retenu, teneur

Middle English

Noun

tenure

1. Alternative form of tenour

Old French

Alternative forms

• teneure (common), teneüre, tenëure (diaereses are not universally used in Old French transcriptions)
• tenuire
• tennure
• tenour
• tenuere

Noun

tenure f (oblique plural tenures, nominative singular tenure, nominative plural tenures)

1. tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system)
2. holding (of land); estate
3. tenure, right of possession
   • 1283, Philippe de Beaumanoir, Les Coutumes de Beauvaisis, available in page 237 of this document

     le longue tenure qu'il alliguent ne lor vaut riens

     The long tenure that they are claiming is worth nothing to them

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (teneure)
• tenure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology

From mile. These areas were originally divided up by square miles.

Noun

mailo (plural mailos)

1. In Uganda, a land tenure system similar to freehold, in which political nobles were accredited land at the start of the 20th century, and passed it on hereditarily, without possibility of the ownership being contested.

Anagrams

• Maoli, maoli

Galician

Etymology

From the contraction (through sandhi assimilation /s l/ > /ll/ > /l/) of conjunction mais (“and”) + masculine article o (from Vulgar Latin *illu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?majlo/

Contraction

mailo m (feminine maila, masculine plural mailos, feminine plural mailas)

1. and the
   • 1823, Pedro Boado Sánchez, Diálogo entre dos Labradores gallegos afligidos:

     E may-lo Alcalde habíase d’alegrar, qu’el tamen está picado, qu’ainda n-hay ano é medio cabal que lle morreo á muller, é tamen pagou á farda como cada fillo de veciño.

     And the mayor would also be glad, because he's also piqued, because there's not a whole year and a half that his wife died and he also paid the burden as every mother's son

References

• “mailo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.