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Italian
Etymology
From French gage, from Old French gage, from Frankish *waddi (a Germanic legal term).
Pronunciation
Noun
gaggio m (plural gaggi) (obsolete)
- pledge, guarantee
- (law, finance) deposit, security, guaranty (guarantee that debt will be paid; property relinquished to ensure this)
- 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. »
- (figurative) reward, prize
Further reading
- gaggio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana