apanage

• appanage

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈæpənɪdʒ/

apanage (plural apanages)

1. 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 1, page 1:

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

   • 1942: they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 1046)
2. A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position.

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

apanage m (plural apanages)

1. prerogative, privilege
2. (historical) apanage

apanage

1. first-person singular present indicative of apanager
2. third-person singular present indicative of apanager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of apanager
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of apanager
5. second-person singular imperative of apanager