ager
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ager (plural agers)
- One who or that which ages something.
- (euphemistic) One who is aging; an elderly person.
- 1965, Richard Hays Williams, Claudine G. Wirths, Lives Through the Years: Styles of Life and Successful Aging, Transaction Publishers (ISBN 9780202367125), page 165
- When the aging person depends on another, the control of the aged one's life space is placed in the hands of another person who may or may not contribute action energy that is appropriate or acceptable from the standpoint of the ager.
- 2006, Gloria Davenport, Working with Toxic Older Adults: A Guide to Coping with Difficult Elders, Springer Publishing Company (ISBN 9780826117236), page 143
- Inappropriate behavior then erupts from the agers involved, disturbing everyone around, including the agers themselves, who often do not understand what is happening and struggle excessively to maintain rigid control of old perceptions and self images.
- 2014, Susan H. Mcfadden, Mark Brennan, NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF LATE, Routledge (ISBN 9781134731107), page 62
- This definition of success is located in society's structures and suits society, not the agers. Successful ageing is arguably therefore a socially constructed phenomenon, characterized by lack of “noise,” maintenance of youthful status until death, and a dogged engagement with social structures which appear almost as if designed to discourage the engagement of older people.
- 1965, Richard Hays Williams, Claudine G. Wirths, Lives Through the Years: Styles of Life and Successful Aging, Transaction Publishers (ISBN 9780202367125), page 165
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ager c (singular definite ageren, plural indefinite agre)
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of ager
Etymology 2[edit]
See age (“drive”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
ager
- present tense of age
Etymology 3[edit]
See agere (“act, play”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
ager or agér
- imperative of agere
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
ager m (plural agers)
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *agros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra) and Old English æcer (English acre).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ager m (genitive agrī); second declension
Inflection[edit]
Second declension, nominative singular in -er.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ager | agrī |
| genitive | agrī | agrōrum |
| dative | agrō | agrīs |
| accusative | agrum | agrōs |
| ablative | agrō | agrīs |
| vocative | ager1 | agrī |
1May also be agre.
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Aromanian: agru
- French: aire
- Galician: agro
- Italian: agro
- Megleno-Romanian: agru
- Old Provençal: agre
- Portuguese: agro
- Romanian: agru
- Spanish: agro
References[edit]
- ager in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ager in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ager in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to irrigate fields: agros irrigare
- the river floods the fields: flumen agros inundat
- to settle a large number of people in a country: multitudinem in agris collocare
- to till the ground: agrum colere (Leg. Agr. 2. 25. 67)
- to leave fertile ground untilled: agros fertiles deserere
- to live in the country: in agris esse, habitare
- the corn is not yet ripe: frumenta in agris matura non sunt (B. G. 1. 16. 2)
- public land; state domain: ager publicus
- to allot land: agros assignare (Leg. Agr. 1. 6. 17)
- to make an inroad into hostile territory: excursionem in hostium agros facere
- to irrigate fields: agros irrigare
- ager in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ager in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ager 4 nom/acc forms
Declension[edit]
declension of ager
Synonyms[edit]
- (sharp): ascuțit
See also[edit]
Scanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ager m
- a field
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