different between gager vs agger

English

Etymology

gage +? -er

Noun

gager (plural gagers)

1. A measurer.

See also

• gauger

Anagrams

• Garge, Grega, agger, eggar, regag

French

Etymology

From gage or from Old French guagier, itself from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddi, *wadja, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiare from *wadium. Compare English to wage and wager, which came from the same source via an Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French variant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?e/

Verb

gager

1. to guarantee
2. to wager or bet

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written gage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

gager

1. Alternative form of gauger

English

Etymology

From Middle English agger (“heap; pile”), from Latin agger (“rubble; mound; rampart”), from ad- + gerere (“to carry, to bring”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æd??(r)

Noun

agger (plural aggers)

1. A high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again.
2. A low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again.
3. (historical) In ancient Roman construction, an earthwork; a mound or raised work.

Related terms

• agger nasi

Anagrams

• Gager, Garge, Grega, eggar, gager, regag

Latin

Etymology

If not directly from agger?, from its root.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

agger m (genitive aggeris); third declension

1. rampart, bulwark (or the materials used to make one)
2. causeway, pier, dam, dyke

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• agger?

Descendants

• Italian: argine
• Piedmontese: àrgin
• Spanish: arce, arcén
• Venetian: àrzare, àrxen

References

• agger in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• agger in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• agger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• agger in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• agger in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• agger in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin