different between dirge vs hommage

English

Etymology

From Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: dûj, IPA^(key): /d??d?/
• (US) enPR: dûrj, IPA^(key): /d?d?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d?

Noun

dirge (plural dirges)

1. A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
2. (informal) A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.

Synonyms

• lament, requiem, coronach, threnody, elegy

Related terms

• dirgeful

Translations

Verb

dirge (third-person singular simple present dirges, present participle dirging, simple past and past participle dirged)

1. To sing dirges

Anagrams

• Ridge, derig, gride, redig, ridge

Middle English

Noun

dirge

1. Alternative form of dirige

English

Etymology

From French hommage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o??m???/, /??m???/

Noun

hommage (countable and uncountable, plural hommages)

1. A homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist.

See also

• Hommage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mega-ohm, megaohm

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch homagie, from Middle French homage, from Old French homage, with subsequent adaptation to French hommage in modern Dutch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????ma?.??/
• Hyphenation: hom?ma?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

hommage m (plural hommages)

1. homage, hommage

   Synonyms: eerbetoon, hulde

French

Etymology

From Old French homage, hommage, from Medieval Latin hominaticum (“homage, the service of a vassal or 'man'”), from Latin homo (“a man, in Medieval Latin a vassal”).

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /?.ma?/

Noun

hommage m (plural hommages)

1. homage

   rendre hommage à

   pay homage to

Derived terms

• rendre hommage

Further reading

• “hommage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

hommage

1. Alternative form of homage