Noun: caitif
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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For, certes, lord, þer is noon of us alle / Þat she ne haþ been a duchesse or a queene. / Now be we caytyves, as it is wel seene, / Þanked be Fortune and hire false wheel (Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Knight's Tale", The Canterbury Tales)
Nouns inflected like caitif
wheston,
scarth,
scough,
schour,
scherd,
scheld,
schalk,
schaft,
smythy,
bombard,
bochous,
hereditament,
syngyng,
peretre,
bastard,
conquest,
comaundour,
patroun,
pacient,
playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman caitif, from Latin captīvus. Doublet of captif. See: Latin Nouns '
captīvus'.
Verbs referencing "caitif"
English Nouns
caitiff.
Translations