gaggio

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French gage, from Old French gage, from Frankish *waddi (a Germanic legal term).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡad.d͡ʒo/
  • Rhymes: -addʒo
  • Hyphenation: gàg‧gio

Noun[edit]

gaggio m (plural gaggi) (obsolete)

  1. pledge, guarantee
  2. (law, finance) deposit, security, guaranty (guarantee that debt will be paid; property relinquished to ensure this)
  3. wage, salary
    • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto VI, page 108:
      « […] Ma nel commensurar d'i nostri gaggi ¶ col merto è parte di nostra letizia ¶ perché non li vedem minor né maggi. […] »
      « […] But in commensuration of our wages with our desert is portion of our joy, because we see them neither less nor greater. […] »
  4. (figurative) reward, prize

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Further reading[edit]

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