homage

Meanings

1. A demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death.
2. An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style.
3. In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights.

1. To pay reverence to by external action.
2. To cause to pay homage.

Etymology

From Middle English homage, from Old French homage, hommage, from Medieval 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/.