Wiktionary

mage

See also: Mage, Magé, magë, and måge

English

edit
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

edit

From 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

edit

Noun

edit

mage (plural magi or mages)

  1. (chiefly fantasy) A magician, wizard, sorcerer, witch, warlock or mystic.
  2. (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

Derived terms

edit

Translations

edit

Anagrams

edit

Afrikaans

edit

Noun

edit

mage

  1. plural of maag

Danish

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): [ˈmæːjə], [ˈmæːæ]

Etymology 1

edit

From Old Norse maki, from Proto-Germanic *makô, *gamakô, cognate with English match.

Noun

edit

mage c (singular definite magen, plural indefinite mager)

  1. fellow (one of a pair, or of two things used together)
  2. mate (of an animal)
  3. husband, wife, spouse
  4. match, equal
Declension
edit
Declension of mage
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mage magen mager magerne
genitive mages magens magers magernes
Derived terms
edit
Further reading
edit

Adjective

edit

mage (uninflected)

  1. (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
edit

Etymology 2

edit

From 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

edit

mage (imperative mag, infinitive at mage, present tense mager, past tense magede, perfect tense har maget)

  1. to arrange
Further reading
edit

Dutch Low Saxon

edit

Etymology

edit

From Old Saxon mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō, from Proto-Germanic *magô. Cognate with Dutch maag (“stomach”).

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

mage f (genitive magen, dative magen, accusative mage, plural magen)

  1. stomach

Usage notes

edit
  • The plural form stays the same in every case.

French

edit

Etymology

edit

From Latin magus.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

mage m (plural mages)

  1. 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.
  2. (obsolete) magus: priest of the Zoroastrian religion, of the Persians and Medes
  3. 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
edit

Further reading

edit

Anagrams

edit

Friulian

edit

Noun

edit

mage ? (plural ?)

  1. stomach

Japanese

edit

Romanization

edit

mage

  1. Rōmaji transcription of まげ

Latin

edit

Noun

edit

mage

  1. vocative singular of magus

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

edit

Etymology 1

edit

From Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō.

Noun

edit

māge f or m

  1. stomach
Inflection
edit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
edit
  • Dutch: maag
    • Afrikaans: maag
    • Negerhollands: maag
    • → Indonesian: mag
  • Limburgish: maag

Etymology 2

edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

edit

mâge

  1. inflection of mâech:
    1. dative singular
    2. nominative/accusative/dative plural

Further reading

edit

Middle Low German

edit

Etymology

edit

From Old Saxon mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō. Cognate with German Magen (“stomach”).

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

māge f (genitive magen, dative magen, accusative mage, plural magen)

  1. stomach

Usage notes

edit
  • The plural form stays the same in every case.

Synonyms

edit
  • lif (body, figurative for belly)
  • buk (belly, abdomen)

Descendants

edit

Norwegian Bokmål

edit

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

From Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

Noun

edit

mage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural mager, definite plural magene)

  1. abdomen, belly, stomach

Synonyms

edit

Derived terms

edit

References

edit

Norwegian Nynorsk

edit

Etymology

edit

From Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô. The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /²mɑːjə/, /²mɑːɡə/

Noun

edit

mage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural magar, definite plural magane)

  1. abdomen, belly, stomach

Alternative forms

edit

Synonyms

edit

Derived terms

edit

Verb

edit

mage (present tense magar, past tense maga, past participle maga, passive infinitive magast, present participle magande, imperative mage/mag)

  1. (transitive) to gut
    Synonym: sløye
  2. (transitive) to regurgitate (to cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does.)
  3. (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

Anagrams

edit

Swedish

edit
 
Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

Etymology

edit

From Old Swedish maghi, from Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô, from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks-.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

mage c

  1. stomach
  2. abdomen, belly (body part between thorax and pelvis)
    Synonyms: buk, abdomen, (colloquial) kagge
  3. (in idiomatic expressions) insolence, gall, cheek
    Ni hade alltså mage att komma oinbjudna?
    So you had the gall to come uninvited?

Declension

edit
Declension of mage 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mage magen magar magarna
Genitive mages magens magars magarnas

Derived terms

edit

References

edit

Anagrams

edit

West Frisian

edit

Etymology

edit

From Old Frisian maga, from Proto-West Germanic *magō.

Noun

edit

mage c (plural magen, diminutive maachje)

  1. stomach

Further reading

edit
  • “mage”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=mage&oldid=82115008"