homage
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English homage, from Old French homage, hommage, from Medieval Latin homināticum (“homage, the service of a vassal or 'man'”) and Late Latin homāticum, from Latin homō (“a man, in Medieval Latin a vassal”) + -āticum (“pertaining to”). The American pronunciations in /-ɑːʒ/ and with silent h are due to confusion with the nearly synonymous doublet hommage, which is indeed pronounced /oʊˈmɑːʒ/.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɒmɪdʒ/
- (General American) enPR: (h)ŏmʹĭj, ō-mäjʹ, IPA(key): /ˈ(h)ɑmɪdʒ/, /oʊˈmɑʒ/[1], /ɒˈmɑːʒ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒmɪdʒ, -ɑːʒ
- Hyphenation: hom‧age
Noun[edit]
homage (countable and uncountable, plural homages)
- (countable, uncountable) A demonstration of respect, such as towards an individual after their retirement or death
- 1735, [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London; Dublin: Re-printed by George Faulkner, bookseller, […], OCLC 6363280:
- I sought no homage from the race that write.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman[1]:
- When a man squeezes the hand of a pretty woman, […] she will consider such an impertinent freedom in the light of an insult, if she have any true delicacy, instead of being flattered by this unmeaning homage to beauty.
- 2006, New York Times
- It’s appropriate that we pay homage to them and the sacrifices they made.
- 2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62:
- My rainy-day tour in April during the first lockdown was, in fact, a homage to Sir John Betjeman - the poet and railway campaigner whose statue can be found on the upper concourse of St Pancras station.
- (countable) An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style.
- 2002, Kevin Williamson, Dawson's Creek (TV, episode 6.01)
- He likes to tell people that it's a Hitchcockian thriller, but that's kind of like saying Happy Gilmore is a homage to Woody Allen.
- 2002, Kevin Williamson, Dawson's Creek (TV, episode 6.01)
- (historical) In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona:
- We'll do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee,
Love thee as our commander and our king.
Usage notes[edit]
- Often used in the construction pay homage to.
- Because of the different pronunciations, homage is sometimes preceded by the article a and sometimes by an.[1]
- Recently, the pronunciation /oʊˈmɑːʒ/ has been introduced from French for sense 2; see hommage, which preserves the French spelling.
Synonyms[edit]
- manred (British, dialectal or obsolete)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]
homage (third-person singular simple present homages, present participle homaging, simple past and past participle homaged)
- (transitive, obsolete) To pay reverence to by external action.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause to pay homage.
- 1641, Abraham Cowley, A Poem on the Civil War
- The Austrian Crowns and Romes seven Hills she shook; >br>To her great Neptune Homag'd all his Streams
- 1641, Abraham Cowley, A Poem on the Civil War
Translations[edit]
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Further reading[edit]
- “homage” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “homage” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Homage (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "'Homage'", Ben Zimmer, "On Language", The New York Times, November 5, 2010
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French homage, hommage, from Medieval Latin homināticum.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
homage (plural homages)
- An oath of loyalty to a liege performed by their vassal; a pledge of allegiance.
- Money given to a liege by a vassal or the privilege of collecting such money.
- A demonstration of respect or honor towards an individual (including prayer).
- (rare) Membership in an organised religion or belief system.
- (rare) The totality of a feudal lord's subjects when collected.
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “homāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-02.
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin homināticum; equivalent to home + -age.
Noun[edit]
homage m (oblique plural homages, nominative singular homages, nominative plural homage)
Descendants[edit]
See also[edit]
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
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- Middle English terms borrowed from Old French
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- enm:Collectives
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- enm:Money
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- Old French terms inherited from Medieval Latin
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- Old French words suffixed with -age
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