It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 26th.
Today's word is Omage, spelled H-O-M-A-G-E.
Omage is a noun.
An homage is something that is done to honor someone or something.
It's often used with the word pay as in to pay homage to mean to respect or honor.
When homage is used as a synonym of the word tribute, it's sometimes pronounced homage.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Variety by Arameed Tanubu.
The series also pays homage to Detroit with its brutal winters,
chicken spots, and fur-draped residents.
It's a city grounded in black culture,
which is only now beginning to reemerge after years of negligence.
In medieval times,
a person could officially become a vassal of a king or lord by publicly announcing allegiance to him in a formal ceremony,
in that ritual known as homage from the Latin root.
Homo, H-O-M-O, meaning man, the subject who was usually but not always a man,
knelt and placed his hands between those of his Lord,
symbolically surrendering himself and putting himself at the Lord's disposal and under his jurisdiction.
A bond was thus forged between the two.
The vassal's part was to revere and serve his Lord,
and the Lord's role was to protect and provide for the vassal and his family.