Etymology

avenage

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Today it means: A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent. Full definition →

Old French avenage ← Latin avena
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromavena“oats”
  2. Old French · derived fromavenage
  3. English todayavenage

From Old French avenage, from avene, from Latin avena (“oats”).

Words from the same roots

Latinavena all →

avenaceousaveniform

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.