different between age vs ague

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?d??/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Etymology

From Middle English age, borrowed from Anglo-Norman age, from Old French aage, eage (Modern French âge), from assumed unattested Vulgar Latin *aet?ticum, from Latin aet?tem, accusative form of aet?s, from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyu- (“vital force”). Displaced native Middle English elde (“age”) (modern eld; from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age”)).

Noun

age (countable and uncountable, plural ages)

1. (countable) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
2. (countable) The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
3. (countable) One of the stages of life.

4. (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.

5. (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
6. (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.

7. (countable) A period of one hundred years; a century.
8. (countable) The people who live during a particular period.
9. (countable) A generation.

10. (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.

12. (countable, geology) A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts.
13. (countable, poker) The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
14. (uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.

15. (uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.

16. (uncountable) An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority.

Synonyms

• (duration of a life): lifespan, lifetime
• (period (in years or otherwise) something has been alive): eld
• (particular period of time): epoch, time; see also Thesaurus:era
• (period of one hundred years): centennium, yearhundred
• (long time): eternity, yonks; see also Thesaurus:eon
• (latter part of life): dotage, old age, eld; see also Thesaurus:old age

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

age (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle ageing or (US) aging, simple past and past participle aged)

1. (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.

3. (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.

4. (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.

Synonyms

• (cause to grow old): mature; see also Thesaurus:make older
• (grow aged): elden; see also Thesaurus:to age

Derived terms

• age up

Translations

See also

• age on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Appendix:Age by decade

Further reading

• age in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• age in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• EGA, Ega, G. E. A.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse aka (“to drive”), from Proto-Germanic *akan?, cognate with Swedish åka. The verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h?é?eti, which is also the source of Latin ag?, Ancient Greek ??? (ág?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a???/, [?æ?j?], [?æ?æ]
• Homophone: ae

Verb

age (past tense agede, past participle aget)

1. (intransitive, dated) to drive (in a vehicle)
2. (transitive, obsolete) to drive (a vehicle), transport

Inflection

Further reading

• “age” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From a dialectal variant of haie, ultimately from Latin haga, borrowed from Frankish *haggju. More at English hedge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

age m (plural ages)

1. beam (central bar of a plough)
2. shaft

Further reading

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

Irish

Alternative forms

• aige

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /????/

Preposition

age

1. Munster form of ag (used before a possessive determiner)
   • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 193:

Japanese

Romanization

age

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kott

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *?aqV (“to make sour, to rot”). Compare Assan bar-ak (“rotten”) and Arin bar-oje (“rotten”).

Adjective

age

1. rotten

Related terms

• b-?ge-ja?
• d??geja?

Latin

Etymology

Imperative form of ag?

Interjection

age

1. well now, well then, come now (transition)
2. very well, good, right (sign of affirmation)

Verb

age

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ag?

Mapudungun

Noun

age (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. (anatomy) face

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse agi.

Noun

age

1. Alternative form of awe

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French aage, eage, from Vulgar Latin *aet?ticum, from Latin aet?s.

Alternative forms

• aage, ayge (both rare)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d?(?)/

Noun

age (plural ages)

1. The age of someone (or rarely, something); the amount of time which someone has existed for.
2. The correct or traditional age for doing something (especially the age of maturity)
3. The state of being old, elderly, or aged; senescence or old age.
4. The life of something or someone; the length of time where a person or thing exists.
5. A period or portion of time; an age, epoch, or era.
6. Time (as an abstract concept); the passing of time.
7. (rare, in every age) A person or individual who is of a given or certain age.

Related terms

• agen

Descendants

• English: age
• Scots: age

References

• “??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-19.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• ?g

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aug?, from Proto-Germanic *augô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?- (“eye, to see”). Cognates include Old English ?age, Old Saxon ?ga and Old Dutch ?ga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??e/

Noun

?ge n

1. (anatomy) eye

Inflection

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Most dialects: uug

  Goesharde: uug, uuch

  Halligen: uuch

  Heligoland: Oog

  Sylt: Oog

• Saterland Frisian: Ooge
• West Frisian: each

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Portuguese

Verb

age

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of agir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of agir

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ed?/

Noun

age (plural ages)

1. age

Verb

age (third-person singular present ages, present participle agin, past aged, past participle aged)

1. to age

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Etymology

From Middle English agu, ague, borrowed from Middle French (fievre) aguë, “acute (fever)” (Modern French fièvre aiguë), from Late Latin (febris) acuta (“acute fever”), from Latin ac?tus (“sharp, acute”) + febris (“fever”).

Doublet of acute.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??gyo?o, IPA^(key): /?e?.?ju/

Noun

ague (countable and uncountable, plural agues)

1. (obsolete) An acute fever.
2. (pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
   • 1867: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1867 Edition, chapter III.

     He shivered all the while so violently, that it was quite as much as he could do to keep the neck of the bottle between his teeth, without biting it off.
     "I think you have got the ague," said I.
     "I'm much of your opinion, boy," said he.
     "It's bad about here," I told him. "You've been lying out on the meshes, and they're dreadful aguish. Rheumatic too."

   • 1852: Susanna Moodie, "Roughing it in the Bush: or, Forest Life in Canada"

     'Ague and lake fever had attacked our new settlement. The men in the shanty were all down with it, and my husband was confined to his bed on each alternate day, unable to raise hand or foot, and raving in the delirium of the fever.'

   • 1810: Lord Byron, "Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos"

     'Twere hard to say who fared the best:
     Sad mortals! thus the Gods still plague you!
     He lost his labour, I my jest:
     For he was drowned, and I've the ague

3. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever

4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
   • November 23, 1698, John Dryden, letter to Mrs Stewart

     I 'scap'd with one cold fit of an ague

5. (obsolete) Malaria.
   • 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:

     Where I'm from, people have learned that mosquitoes carry ague.

Usage notes

The pronunciation /?e??/ is a common pronunciation by people to whom this is a book word (a word one learns by reading and has never heard spoken). /?e?.?ju/ is the standard pronunciation.

Related terms

• acute
• ague cake
• ague tree

Translations

See also

• fainaigue

Verb

ague (third-person singular simple present agues, present participle aguing, simple past and past participle agued)

1. (transitive) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

Translations

Anagrams

• gaue

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English agu, ague, from Middle French (fievre) aguë (“acute (fever)”). Cognate with English ague.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(j)u/, /e??(j)u/

Noun

ague (plural agues)

1. ague (acute fever)

References

• “ague” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary^[1], 2016.