Etymology

pannage

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Today it means: Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs. Full definition →

Old French pasnage
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  1. Old French · derived frompasnage
  2. English todaypannage

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.

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