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See also: Mage, Magé, magë, and måge

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English mages (plurale tantum), from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek Μάγος (Mágos), from the hapax Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐎢𐏁 (m-gu-u-š /⁠maguš⁠/). Doublet of magus.

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Noun

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mage (plural magi or mages)

  1. (chiefly fantasy) A magician, wizard, sorcerer, witch, warlock or mystic.
  2. (obsolete) Synonym of magus: a Zoroastrian priest.
    • c. 1790, Edward Gibbon, On the Position of the Meridional Line, and the supposed Circumnavigation of Africa by the Ancients; republished as The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. […] , volume 5, 1814, pages 186–87:
      While the liberality of Gelo and his brother Hiero atracted every stranger who could amuse or instruct the court of Syracuse, a Persian Mage related to the former of those princes that he himself had circumnavigated the whole continent of Africa.

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Afrikaans

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Noun

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mage

  1. plural of maag

Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmæːjə], [ˈmæːæ]

Etymology 1

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From Old Norse maki, from Proto-Germanic *makô, *gamakô, cognate with English match.

Noun

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mage c (singular definite magen, plural indefinite mager)

  1. fellow (one of a pair, or of two things used together)
  2. mate (of an animal)
  3. husband, wife, spouse
  4. match, equal
    Har man set magen!
    Has anyone seen the likes of this!
Declension
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Declension of mage
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mage magen mager magerne
genitive mages magens magers magernes
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Adjective

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mage (uninflected)

  1. (dated) matching
    Antonym: umage
    • 1895, Magdalene Thoresen, Livsluft: fortaellinger, page 2:
      Den store Kjærlighed, som forenede dem til et i Sandhed mage Par, var vokset i jævn og kraftig Stigning fra Medfølelse til Respekt, fra den til Beundring - og da var der jo ikke ret langt til Kjærligheden!
      The great love that united them into a truly well-fittingcouple, had grown at an even and strong rate from sympathy to respect, from that to admiration - and then there was no far distance to love!
    • 2009, Peter Michael Lauritzen, Grund og bølge: en litterær, tids- og åndshistorisk studie af Erik Aalbæk Jensens forfatterskab, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 469:
      De er vel tilsyneladende, med hele rigdommens selvsikkerhed, et mere mage par, end den umage Erling […] ville være sammen med Hedvig.
      They are seemingly, with all the confidence of wealth, a more similar pair, than the dissimilar Erling […] would be with Hedvig.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle Low German māken, from Old Saxon makōn, from Proto-West Germanic *makōn, cognate with English make, German machen, Dutch maken. Old Norse maka, Norwegian make, Swedish maka are also borrowed from Low German. The verb is derived from the adjective Proto-Germanic *makaz (“suitable”). A rather dated suffix (although common in compound words) derived from this verb, see -mager

Verb

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mage (imperative mag, infinitive at mage, present tense mager, past tense magede, perfect tense har maget)

  1. (archaic, often humorous) to arrange, organize
Conjugation
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Conjugation of mage
active passive
present mager mages
past magede magedes
infinitive mage mages
imperative mag —
participle
present magende
past maget
(auxiliary verb have)
gerund magen

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French

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Etymology

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From Latin magus.

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Noun

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mage m (plural mages)

  1. specialist in occult sciences foretelling the future
    Après une violente dispute avec son mari, elle consulte un mage qui lui prédit un sombre avenir.
    After a bitter argument with her husband, she consults a fortune-teller, who predicts a gloomy future for her.
  2. (obsolete) magus: priest of the Zoroastrian religion, of the Persians and Medes
  3. wise man (one of the three wise men that came from the East to Bethlehem for Jesus Christ)
    l’adoration des mages
    the Adoration of the Magi
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Friulian

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Noun

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mage ? (plural ?)

  1. stomach

Japanese

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Romanization

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mage

  1. Rōmaji transcription of まげ

Latin

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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mage

  1. vocative singular of magus

Etymology 2

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Old Latin variant of magis, probably connected to s-dropping.

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Adverb

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mage (not comparable)

  1. alternative form of magis

References

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  • “măgē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    The long -ē here is erroneous.
  • “mage”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “mage” in volume 8, column 50, line 79 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
  • “măgĕ”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 937.
  • Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “mage”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎[1], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC

Low German

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Noun

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mage f (plural magen, accusative mage, dative magen, genitive magen)

  1. alternative letter-case form of Mage

Usage notes

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  • The plural form stays the same in every case.

Middle Dutch

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Etymology 1

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From Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō.

Noun

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māge f or m

  1. stomach
Inflection
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Weak feminine noun
singular plural
nominative mage magen
accusative mage magen
genitive mage, magen magen
dative mage, magen magen
Weak masculine noun
singular plural
nominative mage magen
accusative mage magen
genitive magen magen
dative mage magen
Descendants
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  • Dutch: maag
    • Afrikaans: maag
    • Negerhollands: maag
    • → Indonesian: mag
  • Limburgish: maag

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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mâge

  1. inflection of mâech:
    1. dative singular
    2. nominative/accusative/dative plural

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Middle Low German

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Etymology

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From Old Saxon mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō. Cognate with German Magen (“stomach”).

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māge f (genitive magen, dative magen, accusative mage, plural magen)

  1. stomach

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  • The plural form stays the same in every case.

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  • lif (body, figurative for belly)
  • buk (belly, abdomen)

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

Noun

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mage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural mager, definite plural magene)

  1. abdomen, belly, stomach

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô. The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /²mɑːjə/, /²mɑːɡə/

Noun

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mage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural magar, definite plural magane)

  1. abdomen, belly, stomach

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Verb

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mage (present tense magar, past tense maga, past participle maga, passive infinitive magast, present participle magande, imperative mage/mag)

  1. (transitive) to gut
    Synonym: sløye
  2. (transitive) to regurgitate (to cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does.)
  3. (intransitive or reflexive, rare) to move by crawling with one's belly to the floor or ground

Alternative forms

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  • maga (a- or split infinitive)

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Old English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑ.ɡe/, [ˈmɑ.ɣe]

Adjective

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mage

  1. inflection of maga:
    1. nominative feminine/neuter singular
    2. accusative neuter singular

Swedish

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mage / magsäck (sense 1)
en mage (sense 2)

Etymology

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From Old Swedish maghi, from Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô, from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks-.

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mage c

  2. stomach (organ)
    Synonym: magsäck
    ha ont i magen
    have a stomach ache
    vara hård i magen
    be constipated
    (literally, “be hard in one's stomach [idiomatic]”)
    Can also be expressed as förstoppad.
    vara lös i magen
    have loose bowels (diarrhea)
    (literally, “be loose in one's stomach [idiomatic]”)
    få lite mat i magen
    get some food in one's stomach
  4. stomach, belly (abdomen)
    Synonyms: (more formal) buk, (colloquial) kagge, (uncommon) abdomen
    slå någon i magen
    punch someone in the stomach
    klappa någon på magen
    pat someone's belly
    (literally, “pat someone on the belly”)
    ligga på mage
    lie on one's stomach
    magdansös
    belly dancer
  5. (idiomatic, in "ha mage att" (have the stomach to)) nerve, gall (audacity)
    Synonym: fräckheten
    Ni hade alltså mage att komma oinbjudna?
    So you had the gall to come uninvited?

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Declension of mage
nominative genitive
singular indefinite mage mages
definite magen magens
plural indefinite magar magars
definite magarna magarnas

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  • ha is i magen – to be calm and cool under pressure; "to have ice in the stomach"

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West Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian maga, from Proto-West Germanic *magō.

Noun

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mage c (plural magen, diminutive maachje)

  1. stomach

Further reading

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  • “mage”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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