appanage
英 ['æp(ə)nɪdʒ]
美['æpənɪdʒ]
- n. （王、候等的）封地，封禄
英英释义
- 1. any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life;
- "for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use"
- 2. a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family;
- "bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families"
英文词源
- appanage (n.)
- c. 1600, from French apanage (13c.), from apaner "to endow with means of subsistence," from Medieval Latin appanare "equip with bread," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + panis "bread" (see food). Originally, provisions made for younger children of royalty. The double -p- restored in French 15c.-16c., in English 17c.