scutage

From Middle English scutage, from Medieval Latin scutagium, from Latin scutum (“shield”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈskjuːtɪd͡ʒ/

scutage (countable and uncountable, plural scutages)

1. (historical) A tax, paid in lieu of military service, that was a significant source of revenue in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

   Synonym: escuage

   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     The land tax, in its modern shape, has superseded all the former methods of rating either property, or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenths or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hidages, scutages, or tallages

   • 1925, D. Pasquet, An Essay on the Origins of the House of Commons:

     The wars and the maladministration of Richard I and John forced these kings more and more to count on extraordinary revenues, to multiply aids and especially scutages.

• scutage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• scowtage

Borrowed from Medieval Latin scūtāgium, calquing Old French escuage. Compare scuage and scute.

• IPA^(key): /skiu̯ˈtaːd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈskiu̯tad͡ʒ(ə)/

scutage (plural scutages)

1. (Late Middle English) scutage (medieval English tax)

   Synonym: scuage

• English: scutage

• “scūtāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.