agone

See also: Agone

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒn

Adverb

agone (not comparable)

1. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England) Alternative form of ago
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 30:13:

     Three days agone I fell sick.

   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:

     And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind, / Subdued; as poets say, long agone, / Bold Sir George, Saint George did the dragon.

Anagrams

• Ganoe, Genao, Genoa, Onega, genoa

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡo.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: a‧gó‧ne

Etymology 1

From Latin agōn, from Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn).

Noun

agone m (plural agoni)

1. agon (all senses); contest, competition, litigation; battlefield

Related terms

• agonale

Further reading

• agone¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

ago +‎ -one

Noun

agone m (plural agoni)

1. shad (Alosa agone)

Further reading

• agone² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

agōne

1. ablative singular of agōn

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English ago, agon (“passed”), past participle of agon (“to depart, escape, pass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡɔːn/

Adverb

agone

1. ago
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     A while agone .

     A while ago.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 22