jacquerie

English

WOTD – 24 May 2011

Alternative forms

• Jacquerie

Etymology

From the Jacquerie uprising of French peasants in 1358, from Jacques (a derogatory nickname for peasants) + -erie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʒaˈkɹi/, /ˈʒak(ə)ɹi/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

jacquerie (plural jacqueries)

1. A violent revolt by peasants.
   • 1911, Saki, “The Stampeding of Lady Bastable”, in The Chronicles of Clovis:

     A jacquerie, even if carried out with the most respectful of intentions, cannot fail to leave some traces of embarrassment behind it.

   • 1951, Isaac Asimov, chapter 18, in Foundation, Panther Books Ltd publication, published 1974, part V: “The Merchant Princes”, page 185:

     “Is that what you’re setting your hopes on, man? What do you expect? A housewives’ rebellion? A Jacquerie?[”]

   • 1986, G Krishnan-Kutty, Peasantry in India, page 71:

     Whenever a jacquerie occurred, the authorities looked "upon it as a revolt of the underdog against his native oppressor."

   • 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2013, page 207:

     Nearly three thousand manors were destroyed (15 per cent of the total) during the Jacquerie of 1905-6.

Translations

a violent revolt by peasants

• Catalan: germania f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 農民起義／农民起义 (zh) (nóngmínqǐyì)

• Finnish: talonpoikaiskapina, (in the history of France) jacquerie (fi)
• French: jacquerie (fr) f
• Hungarian: parasztlázadás (hu), parasztfelkelés (hu)
• Polish: żakeria f, powstanie chłopskie n, rewolta chłopska f
• Portuguese: jaqueria f
• Romanian: jacquerie (ro) f
• Russian: крестья́нское восста́ние (krestʹjánskoje vosstánije), жакери́я (žakeríja)
• Swedish: bondeuppror

French

Etymology

From Jacquerie, from Jacques (a derogatory nickname for peasants, literally “James”) +‎ -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.kʁi/

• Audio:

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Noun

jacquerie f (plural jacqueries)

1. commoners' revolt, jacquerie

Further reading

• “jacquerie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French jacquerie.

Noun

jacquerie f (uncountable)

1. jacquerie

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	jacquerie	jacqueria
genitive-dative	jacquerii	jacqueriei
vocative	jacquerie, jacquerio