agere

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /eɪdʒˈɹiː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /eɪdʒˈɹi/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: age‧re

Noun

agere (countable and uncountable, plural ageres)

1. (uncountable) Clipping of age regression.
2. (countable) Clipping of age regressor.

See also

• agere sequitur esse

Anagrams

• agree, Eager, aeger, eager, eagre, geare, æger

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin agō (“I do, act”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. Cognate with Swedish agera, also borrowed from the Latin word. See also Danish age, which was inherited from Old Norse aka, from the same Proto-Indo-European verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡeˀʌ/

Verb

agere (imperative ager, infinitive at agere, present tense agerer, past tense agerede, perfect tense ageret)

1. to act
2. to play

Further reading

• “agere” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Verb

agere

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of ageren

Anagrams

• ageer

Latin

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɡɛ.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.d͡ʒe.re]

Verb

agere

1. inflection of agō:
   1. second-person singular present passive indicative/imperative
   2. present active infinitive

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɡeː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈd͡ʒɛː.re]

Verb

agēre

1. second-person singular future passive indicative of agō

Loloda

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-North Halmahera (likely of the form *ager); compare Galela age, Tabaru 'agere, Ternate age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡe.ɾe/

Noun

agere

1. a tree trunk, stump

References

• M. J. van Baarda (1904), Het Lòda'sch, in vergelijking met het Galėla'sch dialect op Halmaheira

Yoruba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /à.ɡé.ɾé/

Noun

àgéré

1. (usually in the plural) stilt
2. (by extension) heels; high-heeled shoes