different between ager vs sager
ager
English
Etymology
age +? -er
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?e?.d??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?e?.d??/
Noun
ager (plural agers)
- One who or that which ages something.
- (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)
- (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
- 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
- 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
- field, farm
- land, estate, park
- territory
- country, countryside
- terrain
- 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)
- quick, swift.
- smart, cunning, sharp.
- (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)
- a field
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /?a??r/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?a???r/, /?a??r/
Noun
ager m (plural agerau)
- steam
- Synonyms: stêm, anwedd
Mutation
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sager
English
Adjective
sager
- comparative form of sage: more sage
Anagrams
- Agers, GRASE, Regas, SEGRA, Segar, agers, gaser, gears, rages, regas, sarge, segar
Danish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a??r
Noun
sager c
- indefinite plural of sag
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
sager m or f
- indefinite plural of sag
Verb
sager
- present of sage
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
sager f
- indefinite plural of sag
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