pannage
noun
pannage is a noun meaning “Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-N-N-A-G-E, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pannage is pannages.
What does pannage mean?
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pannage
- pannages plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pannage?
Pannage appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Pannage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense feeding season for pigs on acorns and beech nuts:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does pannage come from?
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).