mage

See also: Mage, Magé, magë, and måge

English

Etymology

From Latin magus.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: māj, IPA(key): /meɪdʒ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun

mage (plural magi or mages)

  1. (fantasy) A magician, wizard or sorcerer.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Danish

Adjective

mage

  1. matching

Noun

mage c (singular definite magen, plural indefinite mager)

  1. fellow (one of a pair, or of two things used together)
  2. mate
  3. husband, wife, spouse
  4. match

Inflection

Verb

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

  1. arrange

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mɒːɣə], IPA(key): [mɔːɣə] (more on the merger of monophthongal A and O)

Noun

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

  1. stomach

Usage notes

  • The plural form stays the same in every case.

French

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑʒ

Noun

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.
  2. (obsolete) magus: priest of the Zoroaster religion, with the Persians and the Medes.
  3. wise man (one of the three wise men that came from the East to Bethlehem for Jesus Christ)
    L’adoration des mages.

Further reading

Anagrams

Friulian

Noun

mage ? (plural ?)

  1. stomach

Japanese

Romanization

mage

  1. Rōmaji transcription of まげ

Latin

Noun

mage

  1. vocative singular of magus

References

  • 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

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

Noun

māge f, m

  1. stomach
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Noun

mâge

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

Further reading

  • “maghe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “mage (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle Low German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maːɣə/

Noun

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

  1. stomach

Usage notes

  • The plural form stays the same in every case.

Synonyms

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

Descendants

  • Low German:
    • German Low German: Mage, Maag
    • Westphalian:
      Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Māge
      Sauerländisch: Māge
      Westmünsterländian: Maagen, Maage
  • Plautdietsch: Moag

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. abdomen, belly, stomach

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²mɑːɡə/

Noun

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

  1. abdomen, belly, stomach

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

mage c

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

Declension

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • 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

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian maga, from Proto-Germanic *magô. Compare English maw, Low German mage, Dutch maag, German Magen, Danish mave, Swedish mage, Icelandic magi.

Noun

mage

  1. stomach
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