auge
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic أَوْج (ʔawj), from Persian اوگ (owg).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
auge m (plural auges)
French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin alveus; according to the TLFi etymological dictionary, it was a (very early) borrowing.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
auge f (plural auges)
- trough (long, narrow container for feeding animals)
- (masonry) mixing tub, mortar box (pan or tub for mixing mortar)
- bucket (of a water wheel)
- (anatomy) intermandibular region (of a horse or other mammal)
Verb edit
auge
- inflection of auger:
Further reading edit
- “auge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic أَوْج (ʔawj), from Persian اوگ (owg). Compare Catalan and Spanish auge.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
auge f (plural augi)
- (astronomy) apogee
- Synonym: apogeo
- (figurative) height, apex
- essere all’auge della gioventù ― to be in the prime of youth
- essere in auge ― to be in vogue
Further reading edit
- auge in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.ɡeː/, [ˈäu̯ɡeː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.d͡ʒe/, [ˈäːu̯d͡ʒe]
Verb edit
augē
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
auge n (definite singular auget, indefinite plural auge, definite plural auga)
- Alternative form of auga
Derived terms edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic أَوْج (ʔawj), from Persian اوگ (owg).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
auge m (plural auges)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic أَوْج (ʔawj), from Persian اوگ (owg). Spelling with g influenced by Latin augēre (“to wax, to increase”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
auge m (plural auges)
- boom, rise, growth
- en auge ― on the rise; booming
- 2020 January 18, Jaime Santirso, “El lado oscuro de TikTok, el rey chino de los vídeos relámpago”, in El País[1]:
- El auge de la plataforma, además, subraya la pujanza tecnológica del gigante asiático.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (also figurative) peak, zenith, heyday
- Synonym: cenit
Derived terms edit
- auge y caída (“rise and fall, boom and bust”)
Further reading edit
- “auge”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014