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Lage

Lage

See also: lage, lagë, läge, and låge

Danish

Proper noun

Lage

  1. A male given name.

German

Etymology

From the verb liegen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaːɡə/
  • Hyphenation: La‧ge
  • Rhymes: -aːɡə

Noun

Lage f (genitive Lage, plural Lagen)

  1. location, position
  2. situation
  3. thickness (layer)

Declension

Derived terms

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish Lage.

Proper noun

Lage

  1. A male given name.

lage

lage

See also: Lage, lagë, läge, and låge

English

Noun

lage (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, Britain, cant) Water; any weak alcoholic beverage.
    • 1641–42, Brome, Richard, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, Act 2:
      I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.

Verb

lage (third-person singular simple present lages, present participle lageing, simple past and past participle lageed)

  1. (archaic, Britain, cant) To drink.
    • 1566, Harman, Thomas, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors:
      I saye by the Salomon I will lage it of with a gage of Benebouse; then cut to my nose watch.

References

  • Grose, Francis (1788) A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper
  • Barrère, Albert; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1889) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume 2, page 2
  • Farmer, John Stephen (1896) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 4, pages 144

Dutch

Etymology 1

Adjective

lage

  1. Inflected form of laag

Etymology 2

Verb

lage

  1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of liggen

Etymology 3

Dialectal form of laai.

Noun

lage f (plural [please provide], diminutive [please provide])

  1. (obsolete) A (flickering) flame.

Haitian Creole

Verb

lage

  1. release, let go

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun lag

Verb

lage (imperative lag, present tense lager, passive lages, simple past laga or laget or lagde, past participle laga or laget or lagd, present participle lagende)

  1. to make (something)

References


Old English

Alternative forms

Noun

lage f

  1. law, ordinance, rule, regulation; right, legal privilege