Evictee

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who has been legally displaced from their home due to eviction actions
2. An individual compelled to vacate their living space as a result of enforced legal measures
3. Someone who has been removed from their home by legal authority due to eviction

Etymology: "Evictee" is formed from "evict" plus the suffix "-ee," which in English denotes the person who is the object or recipient of an action. So an "employee" is someone who is employed, a "trainee" someone being trained, and an "evictee" someone who is evicted. The suffix came into English through Anglo-Norman and Old French, where it appeared in words such as "retiré" for a person who has been retired, and English speakers then adopted it freely to make new terms. "Evict" itself comes from the Latin "evincere," meaning "to conquer completely" or "to overcome in a legal contest," built from "e-" (out) and "vincere" (to conquer). The sense of winning a case, and thereby taking property away from its holder, is the root of the modern meaning: to evict is to remove someone from land or a dwelling by legal process.

Synonyms: displaced person, tenant

Antonyms: landlord, owner