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cantrede (c.1230)

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[ FEW: *2/i,231b canthus; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: ∅; TL: ∅; DEAF: ∅; DMF: ∅; TLF: ∅; OED: cantred n. / cantref n.; MED: candred(e n.; DMLBS: 264a cantredus ]

cantred; cantref, kantref, cantre;
pl. cantredez, cantrediz

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The Welsh term cantref was borrowed into Latin as cantredus and later into Middle English as candred(e). See Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru/A Dictionary of the Welsh Language cantref. The Anglo-Norman examples illustrate different stages of this borrowing.

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1lawcantred, an administrative district in Wales or Ireland roughly equivalent to an English hundred:

( c.1230; MS: s.xiii^ex ) Le cantref pus de Hadhnorkur A Meiler [...] Donad Huge de Laci 3136

( s.xiii ) Le premer conquerur des treys kantrefs de la tere de Brekenoch estoyt Bernard de Nefmarché 8

( 1319 ) vous monstre la dite communalté pur vostre grant profit qe le cantref de Arwysteli est le quinzime cantref de vostre terre de Northgales SC 8/74/3694

( 1376 ) les chastiel ville et honur de Dynbeighe et lez cantredez de Roos [...]; les ditz chastiel ville honour cantredes 482

( 1393 ) A vous [...] notre seignour le roi en Irland supplie Thomas Thomas le Botiller [...] qe vous luy plese doner et graunter touz les terres et tenemenz du cantre de Offfagh, en le countiee de Typerarie 220

( 1432 ) courtes, hundreds, commotez, cantrediz iv 397

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