jauge

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See also: jaugé

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒoʒ/
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Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French jauge, from Old French jauge (“gauging rod”), from Frankish *galgā, *galgō (“measuring rod, pole”), from Proto-Germanic *galgô (“pole, stake, cross”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”). Cognate with Old High German galgo, Old Frisian galga, Old English ġealga (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse galgi (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse gelgja (“pole, perch”).

Noun

jauge f (plural jauges)

  1. gauge
  2. capacity
    Synonym: capacité
    • 2021 April 26, Emmanuel Macron, quotee, “Covid-19 : Emmanuel Macron évoque un décalage du couvre-feu au-delà de 19 heures”, in Le Monde.fr‎:
      A un enseignant qui lui demandait « rouvrir les châteaux » aux visites, le président a précisé que l’objectif était de rouvrir les lieux culturels « avec des jauges limitées et un accès privilégié pour les scolaires à partir de la mi-mai ».
      To a teacher who asked him to "reopen castles" to visits, the president said that the aim was to reopen cultural sites "with limited capacity and priority access for schoolchildren from the middle of May".
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

jauge

  1. inflection of jauger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Anagrams

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *galgo, *galga, from Proto-Germanic *galgô (“rod”).

Noun

jauge oblique singular, f (oblique plural jauges, nominative singular jauge, nominative plural jauges)

  1. gauging rod (rod used to measure the depth of a liquid)

Descendants

  • Middle French: jauge
  • → Galician: galgar
  • → Middle English: gauge, gage
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