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panage

French, noun/pa.naʒ/

panage is a French masculine noun meaning “Feeding of pigs on beech nuts and acorns in the forests” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de faire paître des porcs dans les sous bois”.

What does panage mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineFeeding of pigs on beech nuts and acorns in the forests

  2. 2

    masculinethe right to so feed pigs

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action de faire paître des porcs dans les sous bois. 2. Droit ou permission de mener les porcs à la glandée dans une forêt.

noun: 1. Action de paner un aliment. 2. Résultat de cette action.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of panage

  • panages plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce panage?

  • /pa.naʒ/
  • \pa.naʒ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to panage

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is panage in French?

panage appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).