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gage
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?d??/
- Rhymes: -e?d?
- Homophone: gauge
Etymology 1
From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto-Germanic *wadj? (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.
Verb
gage (third-person singular simple present gages, present participle gaging, simple past and past participle gaged)
- (obsolete) To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
- (archaic) To wager, to bet.
- c. 1626, John Ford 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- This feast, I'll gage my life, / Is but a plot to train you to your ruin.
- c. 1626, John Ford 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
Noun
gage (plural gages)
- Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- “But it is enough that I challenge the trial by combat — there lies my gage.” She took her embroidered glove from her hand, and flung it down before the Grand Master with an air of mingled simplicity and dignity…
- 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford 2003, page 166:
- The gage was down for a duel that would split the Democratic party and ensure the election of a Republican president in 1860.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- (obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
- [I]t seemed to create a sort of material link between the Princess and himself, and at the end of three months it almost appeared to him, not that the exquisite book was an intended present from his own hand, but that it had been placed in that hand by the most remarkable woman in Europe.... [T]he superior piece of work he had done after seeing her last, in the immediate heat of his emotion, turned into a kind of proof and gage, as if a ghost, in vanishing from sight, had left a palpable relic.
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
Translations
Etymology 2
See gauge.
Noun
gage (plural gages)
- US alternative spelling of gauge (a measure, instrument for measuring, etc.)
Verb
gage (third-person singular simple present gages, present participle gaging, simple past and past participle gaged)
- (US) Alternative spelling of gauge (to measure)
Usage notes
The spelling gage is encountered primarily in American English, but even there it is less common than the spelling gauge.
Translations
Etymology 3
Back-formation from greengage.
Noun
gage (plural gages)
- A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 4
Noun
gage
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A quart pot. [15th–19th c.]
- (archaic, Britain, slang) A pint pot. [18th–19th c.c.]
- (archaic, Britain, slang, metonymically) A drink. [from 19th c.]
- (archaic, Britain, slang) A tobacco pipe. [mid 17th–early 19th c.]
- (archaic, Britain, slang) A chamberpot. [19th c.]
- (archaic, Britain, slang) A small quantity of anything. [19th c.]
- (slang, dated) Marijuana
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French gage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?.??/
- Hyphenation: ga?ge
- Rhymes: -a???
Noun
gage m (plural gages)
- wage for work performed (in particular for a performance by performing artists)
Related terms
- engageren
Descendants
- ? Malay: gaji
- Indonesian: gaji
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Homophones: gagent, gages
Etymology 1
From Middle French gage, from Old French gage, guage, from Frankish *wadd?.
Noun
gage m (plural gages)
- pledge, guarantee
- (law, finance) deposit, security, guaranty (guarantee that debt will be paid; property relinquished to ensure this)
- forfeit (something deposited as part of a game)
- proof, evidence, assurance
- (in the plural) wages, salary
Derived terms
- tueur à gages
Related terms
- gager
Descendants
- ? Dutch: gage
- ? German: Gage (see there for further descendants)
Etymology 2
Verb
gage
- first-person singular present indicative of gager
- third-person singular present indicative of gager
- first-person singular present subjunctive of gager
- third-person singular present subjunctive of gager
- second-person singular present imperative of gager
Further reading
- “gage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
gage (plural gages)
- Alternative form of cage
Etymology 2
Noun
gage
- Alternative form of gauge
Etymology 3
From Old French gage, from Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *wadd?. Doublet of wage and wed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?d?(?)/
Noun
gage
- A security, surety, or bond.
- A formal declaration of combat.
- (rare) Money for the release of a hostage .
Descendants
- English: gage
References
- “g??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-22.
Old French
Alternative forms
- guage, gaige, wage
Etymology
From Medieval Latin wadium (“pledge, legal contract, wage”), from Frankish *wadd?.
Noun
gage m (oblique plural gages, nominative singular gages, nominative plural gage)
- wage (regular remuneration)
- (figuratively) payment
Descendants
- Middle French: gage
- French: gage
- ? Middle English: gage
- English: gage
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yage
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?j??he?/
Noun
yage (uncountable)
- Ayahuasca.
- 1953, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 155:
- A large dose of Yage is sheer horror. I was completely delirious for four hours and vomiting at 10 minute intervals.
- 1953, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 155:
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- Gaye
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