bague
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French bague (“ring”). Doublet of bee.
Noun edit
bague (plural bagues)
- (architecture) The annular moulding or group of mouldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bague”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French bague, possibly a borrowing from Middle Dutch bage, bagge (“ring”), of obscure origin, but probably related to Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, circlet”).
Compare Middle Low German bâge, bôge (“curve, arch, ring”), Old French wage (“ring”). Compare also Old French bage, Medieval Latin baga (“ring”) (also from the Proto-Germanic).
Another theory proposes a derivation from Latin baca (“berry”), plausible semantically, and comparable to Catalan baga (“ring”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bague f (plural bagues)
Further reading edit
- “bague”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Of Germanic origins, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Noun edit
bague f (plural bagues)
- (Jersey) ring (jewelry)
- (Jersey) hawthorn berry, haw (fruit)