aeger

See also: äger and æger

English

Etymology 1

From Latin aeger (“sick”).

Adjective

aeger (not comparable)

1. (dated, British school slang) Absent and excused from one’s classes due to illness
2. (dated, British school slang) Relating to such an excused absence

Noun

aeger (plural aegers)

1. (dated, British school slang) An excused absence from classes due to illness
2. (dated, British school slang) A note excusing a student from classes due to illness
   • 1870 June 18, “The Nemesis”, in Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts‎^[1], number 338, chapter 7, page 395:

     Dick laughed. 'I'll get the receipt from him. I often want a good thing for an "æger."'

Related terms

• aegrotat

Etymology 2

Obscure, but probably Germanic. Compare eagre.

Noun

aeger (plural aegers)

1. (dated, local dialect) A particularly high tidal wave on some rivers, esp. the Trent

Anagrams

• Eager, agree, eager, eagre, geare

Latin

Etymology

Presumably from Proto-Italic *aigros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eygros, from *h₂eyg-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈae̯.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.d͡ʒer]

Adjective

aeger (feminine aegra, neuter aegrum, comparative aegrior, superlative aegerrimus, adverb aegrē); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. sick, ill

   Synonyms: aegrōtus, languidus, affectus, miser, īnfirmus, fessus

   Antonyms: sānus, salvus, validus, integer, intāctus, salūber

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.14:

     […] : mulis strata detrahi iubet binisque tantum centunculis relictis agasones partim captivis, partim aegrorum armis ornatos imponit.

     […] : he orders the mules to be stripped off their saddles and, leaving them only some two small pieces of patchwork to be sat on, be mounted with their muleteers carrying weapons taken from either the prisoners or the sick.

2. weak, feeble

   Synonyms: dēbilis, languidus, fractus, tenuis, mollis, īnfirmus, inops, fessus, obnoxius

   Antonyms: praevalēns, fortis, potis, potēns, validus, strēnuus, compos

3. (figuratively) difficult, reluctant, troublesome
4. (figuratively) anxious, troubled, sad

   Synonyms: trīstis, infēlīx, maestus, miser

   Antonyms: laetus, alacer, fēlīx

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	aeger	aegra	aegrum		aegrī	aegrae	aegra
genitive	aegrī	aegrae	aegrī		aegrōrum	aegrārum	aegrōrum
dative	aegrō	aegrae	aegrō		aegrīs
accusative	aegrum	aegram	aegrum		aegrōs	aegrās	aegra
ablative	aegrō	aegrā	aegrō		aegrīs
vocative	aeger	aegra	aegrum		aegrī	aegrae	aegra

Noun

aeger m (genitive aegrī); second declension

1. a sick person, invalid

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

	singular	plural
nominative	aeger	aegrī
genitive	aegrī	aegrōrum
dative	aegrō	aegrīs
accusative	aegrum	aegrōs
ablative	aegrō	aegrīs
vocative	aeger	aegrī

Derived terms

• aegrē
• aegreō
• aegrimōnia
• aegritūdō
• (hapax) aegror

Related terms

• aegrescō
• aegrotaticius
• aegrōtātiō
• aegrōtō
• aegrōtus
• aegrum

Descendants

• English: aeger
• Italian: egro
• Portuguese: egro

Further reading

• “aeger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aeger”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “aeger”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be ill, weakly: infirma, aegra valetudine esse or uti
    
  • to have the gout: ex pedibus laborare, pedibus aegrum esse
    
  • some one feigns illness: aliquis simulat aegrum or se esse aegrum
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “aeger”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 26

Scots

Etymology

Perhaps From Middle English nauger.

Noun

aeger (plural aegers)

1. (Shetland) auger

References

• “aeger, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.