ager - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

From age +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.dʒə/
• (US) IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɚ/

ager (plural agers)

1. One who or that which ages something.
2. (euphemistic) One who is aging; an elderly person.
   • 1965, Richard Hays Williams, Claudine G. Wirths, Lives Through the Years: Styles of Life and Successful Aging, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 165:
     When the aging person depends on another, the control of the aged one's life space is placed in the hands of another person who may or may not contribute action energy that is appropriate or acceptable from the standpoint of the ager.
   • 2006, Gloria Davenport, Working with Toxic Older Adults: A Guide to Coping with Difficult Elders, Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 143:
     Inappropriate behavior then erupts from the agers involved, disturbing everyone around, including the agers themselves, who often do not understand what is happening and struggle excessively to maintain rigid control of old perceptions and self images.
   • 2014, Susan H. McFadden, Mark Brennan, New Directions in the Study of Late Life Religiousness and Spirituality, Routledge, →ISBN, page 62:
     This definition of success is located in society's structures and suits society, not the agers. Successful ageing is arguably therefore a socially constructed phenomenon, characterized by lack of “noise,” maintenance of youthful status until death, and a dogged engagement with social structures which appear almost as if designed to discourage the engagement of older people.

• (elderly person): geriatric, oldster, senior citizen; see also Thesaurus:old person

• middle-ager

• superager

• GRAE, Gear, Gera, Rega, areg, gare, gear, rage

From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz, cognate with Swedish åker, English acre, German Acker. The word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”), which is also the source of Latin ager, Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós), Sanskrit अज्रः (ájraḥ).

• IPA(key): /aːˀɣər/, [ˈæˀ(j)ɐ]
• Rhymes: -aːˀər

ager c (singular definite ageren, plural indefinite agre)

1. (dated) field
   Synonyms: agerjord, mark

• agerbrug

• agerdyrker

• agerdyrkning

• agerjord

• “ager” in Den Danske Ordbog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA(key): /aːɣər/, [ˈæː(j)ɐ]
• Homophone: aer

ager

1. present tense of age

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA(key): /aɡeːˀr/, [aˈɡ̊eˀɐ̯], [aˈɡ̊eɐ̯ˀ]

ager or agér

1. imperative of agere

From Proto-Italic *agros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra) and Old English æcer (English acre).

• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡer/, [ˈäɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒer/, [ˈäːd͡ʒer]

ager m (genitive agrī); second declension

1. field, acre
2. land, estate, park
3. territory
4. country, countryside
5. terrain
6. soil

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• agellus

• agrālis

• agrāria

• agrārius

• agrāticum

• agrellus

• agrestis

• agricola

• agricultiō

• agricultor

• agricultūra

• agrīmēnsor

• agripeta

• agrōsus

• peragrō

• peregre

• Aromanian: agru

• French: aire

• → French: ager

• Galician: agro, agra

• Italian: agro

• Megleno-Romanian: agru

• Old Occitan: agre

• Portuguese: agro

• Romanian: agru

• Spanish: agro

• “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.

  • to irrigate fields: agros irrigare
  • the river floods the fields: flumen agros inundat
  • to settle a large number of people in a country: multitudinem in agris collocare
  • to till the ground: agrum colere (Leg. Agr. 2. 25. 67)
  • to leave fertile ground untilled: agros fertiles deserere
  • to live in the country: in agris esse, habitare
  • the corn is not yet ripe: frumenta in agris matura non sunt (B. G. 1. 16. 2)
  • public land; state domain: ager publicus
  • to allot land: agros assignare (Leg. Agr. 1. 6. 17)
  • to make an inroad into hostile territory: excursionem in hostium agros facere

• “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

Inherited from Latin agilis (“swift”). Doublet of agil, a borrowing.

• IPA(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒer/

ager m or n (feminine singular ageră, masculine plural ageri, feminine and neuter plural agere)

1. quick, swift.
2. smart, cunning, sharp.
3. (of objects) sharp

• (sharp): ascuțit
• agil

From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz.

• IPA(key): [ɑ́ːɣɐ]

ager m (definite singular agern, plural agrar)

1. a field

• agerdd
• (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈaɡɛr/
• (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈa(ː)ɡɛr/

ager m (plural agerau)

1. steam
   Synonyms: stêm, anwedd

• ageru (“to steam”)
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ager”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies