adage

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Middle French adage, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin adagium

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.dɪdʒ/

Noun

adage (plural adages)

1. An old saying which has obtained credit by long use
2. An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim
   • Shakespeare, Macbeth

     Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage.

Synonyms

• proverb, colloquialism, apophthegm
• See also Thesaurus:saying

Translations

old saying

• Bulgarian: пословица (bg) (poslovica), поговорка (bg) (pogovorka)
• Dutch: gezegde (nl)
• Finnish: sanonta (fi)
• Georgian: გამონათქვამი (gamonatkvami)
• German: Sprichwort (de) n, geflügeltes Wort (de) n
• Greek: παροιμία (el) f (paroimía), γνωμικό (el) n (gnomikó)
• Hungarian: szállóige (hu), velős mondás, bölcs mondás, közmondás (hu)
• Interlingue: ,
• Italian: modo di dire (it) m
• Latin: adagium n
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• Norwegian: visdomsord n
• Persian: پند (fa) (pand)
• Portuguese: adágio (pt) m, dito (pt) m, anexim (pt) m
• Russian: посло́вица (ru) f (poslóvica), погово́рка (ru) f (pogovórka)
• Serbo-Croatian: poslovica (sh), izreka (sh)
• Spanish: adagio (es) m, refrán (es) m, dicho (es) m
• Swedish: talesätt (sv) n, ordspråk (sv) n
• Tagalog: sabihin (tl)

Anagrams

• Gadea

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin adagium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.daʒ/

Noun

adage m (plural adages)

1. adage

Further reading

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