an official register of the ownership, extent, and value of real property in a given area, used as a basis of taxation.
Also, ca·das·ter.
Origin: 1795–1805; < French < Provençal cadastro < Italian catastro, earlier (Venetian ) catastico < Late Greek katástichon register, derivative of phrase katà stíchon by line; see cata-, stich
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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an official register showing details of ownership, boundaries, and value of real property in a district, made for taxation purposes
[C19: from French, from Provençal cadastro, from Italian catastro, from Late Greek katastikhon register, from kata stikhon line by line, from kata (see cata-) + stikhos line, stich]
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[C19: from French, from Provençal cadastro, from Italian catastro, from Late Greek katastikhon register, from kata stikhon line by line, from kata (see cata-) + stikhos line, stich]