apanage

• appanage

From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare (“to give bread”), from pānis (“bread”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæpənɪd͡ʒ/

apanage (plural apanages)

1. (historical) A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
   • 1889, Lyof N[ikolayevich] Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], chapter I, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., War and Peace […] In Four Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Co. […], →OCLC, part first, page 1:

     Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family.

   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 1046:

     they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country.

2. A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position; an accompaniment.
   • 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London‎, New York: Henry Holt and Company:

     For, though I don't very much want books and opera and etchings and wines and liqueurs—still, if I want them I can have them at any moment. And that sense of security is worth more than a thousand of the temperamental ecstasies and agonies that are the appanage of hard-up youth.

apanage (third-person singular simple present apanages, present participle apanaging, simple past and past participle apanaged)

1. (transitive) To confer an apanage upon.

• Pangaea, Pangæa

From French apanage.

• IPA^(key): /apanaːsjə/, [apʰaˈnæːɕə]

apanage c (singular definite apanagen, plural indefinite apanager)

1. apanage, appanage

• “apanage” in Den Danske Ordbog
• apanage on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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apanage m (plural apanages)

1. prerogative, privilege
2. (historical) apanage

apanage

1. inflection of apanager:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “apanage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.