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): /ˈæpənɪdʒ/

Noun

apanage (plural apanages)

1. A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
   • 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.

Translations

grant as a birthright

• Danish: apanage (da) c
• Finnish: apanaasi (fi)
• French: apanage (fr) m
• Ido: apanajo (io)
• Indonesian: apanase (id)
• Interlingue:
• Norwegian: appanasje
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: apanágio (pt) m
• Russian: апанаж (ru) m (apanaž)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: апана́жа f

  Roman: apanáža (sh) f

• Swedish: apanage (sv) n

Verb

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

Noun

apanage m (plural apanages)

1. prerogative, privilege
2. (historical) apanage

Verb

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. third-person singular present subjunctive of apanager
5. second-person singular imperative of apanager