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richdom

noun
/ˈɹɪt͡ʃdəm/

Etymology

Probably a calque of a similar formation in a continental West Germanic language, such as Dutch rijkdom (“wealth”) or German Reichtum (“wealth”); equivalent to rich + -dom. Compare Middle English richedom (“wealth, riches”), Old English rīċedōm (“dominion”), Swedish rikedom (“wealth, richness”), and Icelandic ríkidómur (“riches, power”).

  1. derived from *h₃rḗǵs✻
  2. derived from *rīxs✻
  3. inherited from *rīks✻ — “king, ruler”
  4. inherited from *rīkijaz✻ — “kingly, powerful, rich”
  5. inherited from *rīkī✻ — “powerful, rich”
  6. inherited from rīċe — “powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”
  7. inherited from riche — “strong, powerful, rich”
  8. suffixed as richdom — “rich + dom”

Definitions

  1. Wealth

    Wealth; riches; richness; prosperity.

    • Free nature in her inexhaustible richdom of forms can never be fettered into the narrow bounds, which we may assign to any of our technic definitions.
    • [...] and therefore still more approaches in its richdom of tan-principle to the genuine Sumach-leaves of Rhus coriaria.
    • Taking into consideration the taming of all creative richdoms of ideas on the basis of our graphic guidelines, we graphic specialists still have enough freedom to sensibly handle all design tasks.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA