Etymology

parage

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Today it means: Lineage, parentage; rank, especially as high or noble. Full definition →

Middle English parage ← Old French parage
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromparage
  2. Middle English · inherited fromparage
  3. English todayparage

From Middle English parage, from Old French parage, perage, from pair (“equal”) + -age. Doublet of peerage.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchparage all →

peerage

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.