richdom

noun /ˈɹɪt͡ʃdəm/

1. Wealth; riches; richness; prosperity.

   rare, uncountable

   Free nature in her inexhaustible richdom of forms can never be fettered into the narrow bounds, which we may assign to any of our technic definitions.

Where it comes from

Probably a calque of a similar formation in a continental West Germanic language, such as Dutch rijkdom (“wealth”) or German Reichtum (“wealth”); equivalent to rich + -dom. Compare Middle English richedom (“wealth, riches”), Old English rīċedōm (“dominion”), Swedish rikedom (“wealth, richness”), and Icelandic ríkidómur (“riches, power”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry richdom (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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