homage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style.

   He likes to tell people that it's a Hitchcockian thriller, but that's kind of like saying Happy Gilmore is a homage to Woody Allen.

2. 2
   noun

   In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights.

   We'll do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee, / Love thee as our commander and our king.

3. 3
   verb

   To cause to pay homage.

   The Austrian Crowns and Romes seven Hills she shook; >br>To her great Neptune Homag'd all his Streams.

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/.

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