English Explanatory Dictionary

pannage

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
  2. Feeding of pigs on acorns and beech mast in the woods.
  3. The right to feed pigs in this manner.
  4. A tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

Word forms

pannage pannages

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French pasnage (modern French panage), from Late Latin pasnadium, pastinaticum, from pastionare (“to feed on mast, as swine”), from Latin pastio (“a pasturing, grazing”). See pastor.

Derived words

retropannage

Translations

French: panage Latin: pasnagium Latin: pasnadium Latin: pastinaticum Spanish: montanera
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