homage

From Middle English homage, from Old French homage, hommage, from Vulgar Latin *homināticum (“homage, the service of a vassal or 'man'”), from Latin homō (“a man, in Medieval Latin a vassal”) + -āticum (noun-forming suffix). The American pronunciations in /-ɑːʒ/ and with silent h are due to confusion with the nearly synonymous doublet hommage, which is indeed pronounced /oʊˈmɑːʒ/.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒmɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American) enPR: (h)ŏmʹĭj, ō-mäjʹ, ŏ-mäjʹ, IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)ɑmɪd͡ʒ/, /oʊˈmɑʒ/, /ɒˈmɑːʒ/[1]

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• Rhymes: -ɒmɪdʒ, -ɑːʒ
• Hyphenation: hom‧age

homage (countable and uncountable, plural homages)

1. (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.

   • 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], published 1792, OCLC 5625662194:

     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.

2. (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.

3. (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.

   Synonym: manred (obsolete)

• 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.

homage (third-person singular simple present homages, present participle homaging, simple past and past participle homaged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pay reverence to by external action.
2. (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

• 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

• ohmage

• hommage, omage, umage

From Old French homage, hommage, from Vulgar Latin *homināticum.

• IPA^(key): /ɔmˈaːdʒ(ə)/, /umˈaːdʒ(ə)/

homage (plural homages)

1. An oath of loyalty to a liege performed by their vassal; a pledge of allegiance.
2. Money given to a liege by a vassal or the privilege of collecting such money.
3. A demonstration of respect or honor towards an individual (including prayer).
4. (rare) Membership in an organised religion or belief system.
5. (rare) The totality of a feudal lord's subjects when collected.

• homager

• English: homage
• Scots: homage
• → Irish: ómós

• “homāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-02.

• hommage, honmage, humage

From Vulgar Latin *homināticum. By surface analysis, home +‎ -age.

homage m (oblique plural homages, nominative singular homages, nominative plural homage)

1. oath; pledge

• Middle French: homage
  • French: hommage
    • → Romanian: omagiu
• → Italian: omaggio
• → Middle Dutch: homagie
  • Dutch: homage
• → Middle English: homage, hommage, omage, umage
  • English: homage
  • Scots: homage
  • → Irish: ómós
• → Sicilian: omaggiu

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• vasselage