apanage

apanage

See also: apanagé

English

Alternative forms

• appanage

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæpənɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

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 794978313, 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.

Translations

grant as a birthright

Danish: apanage (da) c Finnish: apanaasi (fi) French: apanage (fr) m German: Apanage (de) f Ido: apanajo (io) Indonesian: apanase (id) Norwegian: appanasje Polish: apanaże (pl) m pl Portuguese: apanágio (pt) m Russian: апанаж (ru) m (apanaž) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: апана́жа f Roman: apanáža (sh) f Swedish: apanage (sv) n

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To confer an apanage upon.

Anagrams

• Pangaea, Pangæa

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Danish

Etymology

From French apanage.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

apanage c (singular definite apanagen, plural indefinite apanager)

1. apanage, appanage

Inflection

Declension of apanage

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	apanage	apanagen	apanager	apanagerne
genitive	apanages	apanagens	apanagers	apanagernes

Further reading

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

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

apanage m (plural apanages)

1. prerogative, privilege
2. (historical) apanage

Verb

apanage

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

Further reading

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