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)

1. A high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again.
2. A low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again.
3. (historical) In ancient Roman construction, an earthwork; a mound or raised work.

Related terms

• agger nasi

Anagrams

• Gager, Garge, Grega, eggar, gager

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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

1. rampart, bulwark (or the materials used to make one)
2. causeway, pier, dam, dyke

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

• aggerō

Descendants

• Italian: argine
• Spanish: arce, arcén
• Venetian: àrzare, àrxen

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)
    
• “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