mage
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English mages (plurale tantum), from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek Μάγος (Mágos), from the hapax Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐎢𐏁 (m-gu-u-š /maguš/). Doublet of magus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit- (chiefly fantasy) A magician, wizard, sorcerer, witch, warlock or mystic.
- (obsolete) Synonym of magus: a Zoroastrian priest.
- c. 1790, Edward Gibbon, On the Position of the Meridional Line, and the supposed Circumnavigation of Africa by the Ancients; republished as The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. […] , volume 5, 1814, pages 186–87:
- While the liberality of Gelo and his brother Hiero atracted every stranger who could amuse or instruct the court of Syracuse, a Persian Mage related to the former of those princes that he himself had circumnavigated the whole continent of Africa.
Synonyms
edit- (practitioner of allegedly supernatural magic): magic user, spellcaster, enchanter, conjurer, thaumaturge, theurgist
- (spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts): spiritualist, mystic, shaman, witch doctor
Derived terms
editTranslations
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Anagrams
editAfrikaans
editNoun
editmage
Danish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Norse maki, from Proto-Germanic *makô, *gamakô, cognate with English match.
Noun
editmage c (singular definite magen, plural indefinite mager)
- fellow (one of a pair, or of two things used together)
- mate (of an animal)
- husband, wife, spouse
- match, equal
Declension
editDerived terms
editFurther reading
editAdjective
editmage (uninflected)
- (dated) matching
- Synonym: umage
- 1895, Magdalene Thoresen, Livsluft: fortaellinger, page 2:
- Den store Kjærlighed, som forenede dem til et i Sandhed mage Par, var vokset i jævn og kraftig Stigning fra Medfølelse til Respekt, fra den til Beundring - og da var der jo ikke ret langt til Kjærligheden!
- The great love that united them into a truly well-fittingcouple, had grown at an even and strong rate from sympathy to respect, from that to admiration - and then there was no far distance to love!
- 2009, Peter Michael Lauritzen, Grund og bølge: en litterær, tids- og åndshistorisk studie af Erik Aalbæk Jensens forfatterskab, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 469:
- De er vel tilsyneladende, med hele rigdommens selvsikkerhed, et mere mage par, end den umage Erling […] ville være sammen med Hedvig.
- They are seemingly, with all the confidence of wealth, a more similar pair, than the dissimilar Erling […] would be with Hedvig.
Further reading
editEtymology 2
editFrom Middle Low German māken, from Old Saxon makōn, from Proto-West Germanic *makōn, cognate with English make, German machen, Dutch maken. Old Norse maka, Norwegian make, Swedish maka are also borrowed from Low German. The verb is derived from the adjective Proto-Germanic *makaz (“suitable”).
Verb
editmage (imperative mag, infinitive at mage, present tense mager, past tense magede, perfect tense har maget)
- to arrange
Further reading
editDutch Low Saxon
editEtymology
editFrom Old Saxon mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō, from Proto-Germanic *magô. Cognate with Dutch maag (“stomach”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): [mɒːɣə], IPA(key): [mɔːɣə] (more on the merger of monophthongal A and O)
Noun
editmage f (genitive magen, dative magen, accusative mage, plural magen)
Usage notes
edit- The plural form stays the same in every case.
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmage m (plural mages)
- specialist in occult sciences foretelling the future
- Après une violente dispute avec son mari, elle consulte un mage qui lui prédit un sombre avenir.
- After a bitter argument with her husband, she consults a fortune-teller, who predicts a gloomy future for her.
- (obsolete) magus: priest of the Zoroastrian religion, of the Persians and Medes
- wise man (one of the three wise men that came from the East to Bethlehem for Jesus Christ)
- l’adoration des mages
- the Adoration of the Magi
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “mage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editFriulian
editNoun
editmage ? (plural ?)
Japanese
editRomanization
editmage
Latin
editNoun
editmage
References
edit- “mage”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mage”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle Dutch
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō.
Noun
editmāge f or m
Inflection
editThis noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
editmâge
- inflection of mâech:
Further reading
edit- “maghe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “mage (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle Low German
editEtymology
editFrom Old Saxon mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō. Cognate with German Magen (“stomach”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmāge f (genitive magen, dative magen, accusative mage, plural magen)
Usage notes
edit- The plural form stays the same in every case.
Synonyms
editDescendants
editNorwegian Bokmål
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô.
Noun
editmage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural mager, definite plural magene)
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- “mage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô. The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural magar, definite plural magane)
Alternative forms
editSynonyms
editDerived terms
edit- bladmage
- dessertmage
- istermage
- kjertelmage
- kulemage
- løypemage
- magebelte
- magedans
- magehistorie
- magekatarr
- magekjensle
- mageknip
- magekreft
- magemunn
- magemål
- mageplask
- mageriv
- magesaft
- magesekk
- magesjau
- magesjuke
- magesmerte
- magesykje
- magesyre
- mageverk
- magevondt
- magesår
- middagsmage
- nettmage
- puntlêrsmage
- på tom mage
- sidmaga
- stormaga
- strutsemage
- sundmage
- surmaga
- treg mage
- trå mage
- ølmage
Verb
editmage (present tense magar, past tense maga, past participle maga, passive infinitive magast, present participle magande, imperative mage/mag)
- (transitive) to gut
- Synonym: sløye
- (transitive) to regurgitate (to cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does.)
- (intransitive or reflexive, rare) to move by crawling with one's belly to the floor or ground
Alternative forms
edit- maga (a- or split infinitive)
References
edit- “mage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
editSwedish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Swedish maghi, from Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô, from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks-.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmage c
- stomach
- abdomen, belly (body part between thorax and pelvis)
- (in idiomatic expressions) insolence, gall, cheek
- Ni hade alltså mage att komma oinbjudna?
- So you had the gall to come uninvited?
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | mage | mages |
definite | magen | magens | |
plural | indefinite | magar | magars |
definite | magarna | magarnas |
Derived terms
edit- ha is i magen – to be calm and cool under pressure; "to have ice in the stomach"
- ha mage – to have the insolence to do something; "to have stomach (for something)"
- hård i magen – having difficulty passing excrements, being constipated; "hard stomach"
- lös i magen – having loose bowels; "soft/loose stomach"
- komage
- kulmage
- magbesvär
- magblödning
- magborstare
- magcancer
- magdans
- magdanserska
- magdansös
- maggrop
- maggördel
- maginfluensa
- maginnehåll
- magkatarr
- magknip
- magkänsla
- magmun
- magmuskel
- magont
- magplask
- magpumpa
- magpumpning
- magsaft
- magsjuk
- magsjuka
- magskölja
- magsköljning
- magsmärtor
- magsond
- magstark
- magsur
- magsyra
- magsår
- magsäck
- magtrakten
- ölmage
References
edit- mage in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- mage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- mage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
editWest Frisian
editEtymology
editFrom Old Frisian maga, from Proto-West Germanic *magō.
Noun
editmage c (plural magen, diminutive maachje)
Further reading
edit- “mage”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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