different between ager vs yager

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

Borrowed from German Jäger.

Noun

yager (plural yagers)

1. (US, obsolete) A heavy, muzzle-loading hunting rifle
2. A Jäger, an elite soldier of the Austrian army

Anagrams

• Garey, Geary, gayer, gyrae, ragey, re-gay