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English

Etymology

age +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?e?.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?e?.d??/

Noun

ager (plural agers)

1. One who or that which ages something.
2. (euphemistic) One who is aging; an elderly person.

Synonyms

• (elderly person): geriatric, oldster, senior citizen; see also Thesaurus:old person

Anagrams

• GRAE, Gear, Gera, Rega, areg, gare, gear, rage

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz, cognate with Swedish åker, English acre, German Acker. The word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros (“field”), which is also the source of Latin ager, Ancient Greek ????? (agrós), Sanskrit ????? (ájra?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a????r/, [?æ?(j)?]
• Rhymes: -a???r

Noun

ager c (singular definite ageren, plural indefinite agre)

1. (dated) field

   Synonyms: agerjord, mark

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “ager” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

ager

1. present tense of age

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?e??r/, [a???e???], [a???e???]

Verb

ager or agér

1. imperative of agere

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *agros, from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros. Cognates include Ancient Greek ????? (agrós), Sanskrit ???? (ájra) and Old English æcer (English acre).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.?er/, [?ä??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.d??er/, [???d???r]

Noun

ager m (genitive agr?); second declension

1. field, farm
2. land, estate, park
3. territory
4. country, countryside
5. terrain
6. soil

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Derived terms

Descendants

• Aromanian: agru
• French: aire
• ? French: ager
• Galician: agro, agra
• Italian: agro
• Megleno-Romanian: agru
• Old Occitan: agre
• Portuguese: agro
• Romanian: agru
• Spanish: agro

References

• ager in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ager in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ager in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• ager in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ager in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin agilis (“swift”). Doublet of agil, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.d??er/

Adjective

ager m or n (feminine singular ager?, masculine plural ageri, feminine and neuter plural agere)

1. quick, swift.
2. smart, cunning, sharp.
3. (of objects) sharp

Declension

Synonyms

• (sharp): ascu?it

See also

• agil

Scanian

Etymology

From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?????]

Noun

ager m (definite singular agern, plural agrar)

1. a field

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?a??r/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?a???r/, /?a??r/

Noun

ager m (plural agerau)

1. steam

   Synonyms: stêm, anwedd

Mutation

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mongolian ??? (ger)/??? (ger).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????(?)/

Noun

ger (plural gers)

1. A yurt.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 133:

     The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hebrew ????? (ger).

Noun

ger (plural gerim)

1. A male convert to Judaism.

Anagrams

• -erg-, EGR, ERG, GRE, Reg, erg, gre, reg

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *gaura. Compare Lithuanian gauras (“hair, down, tuft of hair”), Latvian gauri (“pubic hair”) and Middle Irish gúaire (“hair”).

Noun

ger m

1. squirrel (furry)

Related terms

• ketër

References

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *g?r, from Proto-Celtic *garyos (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *?h?r-, zero grade of *?eh?r-.

Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ys?r-, “to sing”), Latin garri? (“chatter”), Old English caru (“sorrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?r/

Noun

ger m (plural gerioù)

1. word
   • 1990, Thomas Arwyn Watkins, Martin John Ball, Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. p. 202.

     Skrijal a rae Loeiz o tistagan ar ger [...] 'Louis screamed in pronouncing the word'.

Derived terms

• geriadur ("dictionary")

Inflection

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *g?r, from Proto-Celtic *garyos (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *?h?r-, zero grade of *?eh?r-.

Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ys?r-, “to sing”), Latin garri? (“chatter”), Old English ?earu (“sorrow”).

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [???r]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [?e?r]

Noun

ger m (plural geryow)

1. word
2. saying
3. report

Derived terms

• gerlyver ("dictionary")

Mutation

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??e??]
• Homophone: gerð

Etymology 1

Verb

ger

1. third-person singular present of gera

he, she, it does, makes

1. imperative singular of gera

do! make!

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Old Norse [Term?].

Noun

ger f (genitive singular gerar, uncountable)

1. yeast

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /c??r/
• Rhymes: -??r

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Danish gær, from Old Norse gerð, from Proto-Germanic *garwid?.

Noun

ger n (genitive singular gers, no plural)

1. yeast

Declension

Synonyms

• (yeast): jöstur

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gør, from Proto-Germanic *garwij? or *gerw?.

Noun

ger n (genitive singular gers, no plural)

1. rotting things (as feed)
2. flock, swarm (of carrion birds, flies, etc.)

Declension

Etymology 3

From Old Norse gerr, gj?rr, g?rr, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz.

Adjective

ger (not comparable)

1. ready, fully prepared

Inflection

Etymology 4

From Old Norse gerr, cognate with Old High German ger (“greedy”).

Adjective

ger (comparative gerari, superlative gerastur)

1. greedy, gluttonous

Inflection

Etymology 5

From Old Norse gerr, gj?rr, gørr, from Proto-Germanic *garwiz, comparative of the adverb corresponding to ger (3).

Adverb

ger (comparative form; superlative gerst)

1. better, more thoroughly

References

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.

Old English

Alternative forms

• ??ar

Etymology

Variant of ??ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?r/

Noun

??r n (nominative plural ??r)

1. year
2. the runic character ? (/j/)

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *gai?, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”).

Noun

g?r m

1. spear

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Lombardic: ger
  • ?? Italian: gherone
• Middle High German: g?r
  • German: Ger

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *ger, from Proto-Germanic *geraz.

Adjective

ger

1. greedy

Alternative forms

• giri

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Old Saxon

Etymology

Variant of j?r.

Noun

ger n

1. year

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin gel?, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d??er]

Noun

ger n (plural geruri)

1. frost (cold weather that causes frost to form)
2. frigidness, frosty weather

Declension

Derived terms

• gerar

Related terms

• degera

See also

• frig
• brum?

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?r/

Verb

ger

1. present tense of ge., contracted from the archaic giver

Welsh

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r/

Preposition

ger

1. next to, near

   Synonym: ar bwys

2. beside

   Synonym: wrth

Derived terms

• gerbron (“before, in the presence of”)
• gerllaw (“nearby”)

Westrobothnian

Adjective

ger

1. Alternative spelling of gjer