agger
English
Etymology
From Middle English agger (“heap; pile”), from Latin agger (“rubble; mound; rampart”), from ad- + gerere (“to carry, to bring”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ædʒə(r)
Noun
agger (plural aggers)
- A high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again.
- A low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again.
- (historical) In ancient Roman construction, an earthwork; a mound or raised work.
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Latin
Etymology
If not directly from aggerō, from its root.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈaɡ.ɡer/, [ˈäɡːɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈad.d͡ʒer/, [ˈädː͡ʒer]
Noun
agger m (genitive aggeris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | agger | aggerēs |
Genitive | aggeris | aggerum |
Dative | aggerī | aggeribus |
Accusative | aggerem | aggerēs |
Ablative | aggere | aggeribus |
Vocative | agger | aggerēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “agger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “agger”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- agger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to fortify the camp with a rampart: castra munire vallo (aggere)
- to fortify the camp with a rampart: castra munire vallo (aggere)
- “agger”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “agger”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- “agger”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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