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Lol uuuh no.
It didn’t spring fully formed
Have any proof of that?
It came directly from the Roman governmental system
Shut up gender isn't real
Yep, the word duke comes from dux, which was a Roman military governor title
These aren't gender issues
Bruh
dux means leader
And?
in latin
In what language honey?
Ok, what empire spoke Latin?
Okay and?
It was the title of the subdivision of military governors
you do realize most of our words right now are from latin
Does this pertain to <#513098563924918273> ?
Lkke
like including germanic languages
which English is
Well that’s just wrong but different issue
I can say "aquarium" comes from the latin word "aqua"
doesn't mean that Rome had a noble system in zoology
The dejure kingdoms came directly from the cultural partitions that Rome made to settle barbarian tribes
Like, where do you think the mediavel system came from
They just invented it out of thin air?
There were existing vassalage relationships in Gaul and Iberia
This is why Charlemagne wanted to be crowned emperor of Rome...
Nobility
The term derives from Latin nobilitas, the abstract noun of the adjective nobilis ("well-known, famous, notable"). In ancient Roman society, nobiles originated as an informal designation for the political governing class who had allied interests, including both patricians and plebeian families (gentes) with an ancestor who had risen to the consulship through his own merit (see novus homo, "new man").
“A duke (male) can either be a monarch ranked below the emperor, king, and grand duke ruling over a duchy or a member of royalty or nobility, historically of highest rank, below princes of nobility and grand dukes. The title comes from French duc, itself from the Latin dux, 'leader', a term used in republican Rome to refer to a military commander without an official rank (particularly one of Germanic or Celtic origin), and later coming to mean the leading military commander of a province. “
Yeah, that’s centuries earlier though
A noble didn't hold power
We’re talking late antiquity here
there was no class
No, that’s in the republic
What happened was that there were these heavy tax burdens for the upkeep of the western empire
And mandatory military service
So plebs often wanted to avoid military service, while wealthy landowners wanted their land worked
So they would pay off debts of their plebeian workers and shelter them from military service