Cense

A cense (likely originating from the Walloon and Picard cinse, meaning "farm") is a Meierhof or type of farm found in certain regions of France and Francophone Belgium.[1][2]

The word derives from the Late Latin censa, which refers to a type of rural lease present since Late Antiquity, and would later become the name for a farm itself.[3] A censier himself was thus a tenant farmer lacking many real possessions.

The Censes (abbreviated Cse) of Belgium are recorded with their respective names in the Ferraris Map, a historical map of the 1770s Austrian Netherlands.

References

  1. ^ "CENSE". francois.gannaz.free.fr (in French). 23 September 2025. Archived from the original on 29 September 2010.
  2. ^ "CENSE : Définition de CENSE". cnrtl.fr (Website of the Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales) (in French). 23 September 2025. Archived from the original on 27 December 2024.
  3. ^ "CENSE : Etymologie de CENSE". cnrtl.fr (Website of the Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales) (in French). 23 September 2025. Archived from the original on 12 February 2023.
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