entail
Betekenis (English)
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- To imply, require, or invoke.
- To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
- (obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
- (obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
Synonyms
require
fee-tail
result in
conduce
travel along
ensue
yield
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ɛnˈteɪl/
Etimologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).
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