suzerain
noun
- a feudal lord
- a state in its relation to a semiautonomous state over which it exercises political control
See suzerain in American Heritage Dictionary 4
su·ze·rain
noun- A nation that controls another nation in international affairs but allows it domestic sovereignty.
- A feudal lord to whom fealty was due.
Origin: French, from Old French suserain : probably sus, up (from Latin sūrsum, sūsum, upward, from *subsvorsum, turned upward : subs-, sub-, from under; see sub- + vorsum, neuter of vorsus, variant of versus, past participle of vertere, to turn; see versus ) + souverein, sovereign; see sovereign .
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