bague

See also: bagué

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bague (“ring”). Doublet of bee.

Noun

bague (plural bagues)

1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French bague, possibly a borrowing from Middle Dutch bage, bagge (“ring”), of obscure origin, but likely from Old Frisian bāg, bāch (“ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, ultimately from 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

• IPA^(key): /baɡ/

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Noun

bague f (plural bagues)

1. ring

Descendants

• Sango: bâge

Further reading

• “bague”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• bauge

Norman

Etymology

Of Germanic origin; see the French entry above.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bague f (plural bagues)

1. (Jersey) ring (jewelry)
2. (Jersey) hawthorn berry, haw (fruit)