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pittance
English
Etymology
From Old French pitance, pitence, from Medieval Latin *piet?ntia, from Latin piet?s (“piety”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?t?ns/, [?p???n?s]
- Hyphenation: pit?tance
Noun
pittance (plural pittances)
- A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
- A meagre allowance of money or wages.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5
- So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5
- A small amount.
Translations
Derived terms
- pittancer
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wage
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /we?d??/
- Rhymes: -e?d?
Etymology 1
From Middle English wage, from Anglo-Norman wage, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, guage (whence modern French gage), Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *wadd? (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadj? (“pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed?- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”). Akin to Old Norse veðja (“to pledge”), Gothic ???????????????? (wadi), Dutch wedde. Compare also the doublet gage. More at wed.
Noun
wage (plural wages)
- (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
Synonyms
- earnings, pay, salary
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English wagen (“to pledge”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wagier, a northern variant of Old French guagier (whence modern French gager), itself either from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *wadd?, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadi? from *wadium.
Verb
wage (third-person singular simple present wages, present participle waging, simple past and past participle waged)
- (transitive, obsolete) To wager, bet.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear
- My life I never held but as a pawn
To wage against thine enemies
- My life I never held but as a pawn
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hakluyt to this entry?)
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear
- (transitive, obsolete) To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
- c. 1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
- I fear the power of Percy is too weak
To wage an instant trial with the King.
- I fear the power of Percy is too weak
- c. 1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
- (transitive, obsolete) To employ for wages; to hire.
- abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers
- (transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.
- 1709, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
- pond'ring which of all his Sons was fit
To Reign, and wage immortal War with Wit
- pond'ring which of all his Sons was fit
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- (transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
- (obsolete, law, Britain) To give security for the performance of.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
Usage notes
- "Wage" collocates strongly with "war", leading to expressions such as To wage peace, or To wage football implying the inclusion of a large element of conflict in the action.
Derived terms
- wager (agent noun)
Translations
Anagrams
- waeg
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
wage
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of wagen
German
Verb
wage
- inflection of wagen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch w?ga, from Proto-Germanic *w?g?.
Noun
wâge f
- weight
- a certain weight, of which the exact value varied
- weighing scale
- weighhouse
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- wâgen
Descendants
- Dutch: waag
Further reading
- “waghe (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “wage (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old Northern French wage, from Frankish *wadi, from Proto-Germanic *wadj?. Doublet of gage and wed.
Alternative forms
- wag, vage
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wa?d?(?)/
Noun
wage (plural wages)
- A wage; earnings.
- Money reserved for the payment of salaries.
- An earned positive consequence.
- A promise, pact, or agreement.
Related terms
- wagen
Descendants
- English: wage
- Scots: wage
References
- “w??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.
Etymology 2
Verb
wage
- Alternative form of wagen
Old French
Etymology 1
From Old Norse vágr.
Noun
wage f (oblique plural wages, nominative singular wage, nominative plural wages)
- wave (moving part of a liquid, etc.)
Etymology 2
see gage
Noun
wage m (oblique plural wages, nominative singular wages, nominative plural wage)
- Alternative form of gage
Proto-Norse
Romanization
w?g?
- Romanization of ????
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