English

Noun

partage ‎(plural partages)

1. (obsolete) A part, portion or share.
2. (now rare) Division, sharing; the act of portioning out or dividing up.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.46:

     looke into our Royall house, where so many partages [tr. partages], so many surnames, and so many severall titles have so encumbred us, that the originall of the stocke is utterly lost.

3. (archaic, archaeology) The one-time standard practice of the divvying up of artifacts between archaeologists, their patrons and the host territory.

References

• partage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

French

Etymology

partir +‎ -age

Noun

partage m ‎(plural partages)

1. sharing (act of sharing)

Verb

partage

1. first-person singular present indicative of partager
2. third-person singular present indicative of partager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of partager
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of partager
5. second-person singular imperative of partager

Anagrams

• tapager