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See also: Mage, Magé, magë, and måge

English

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Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: māj, IPA(key): /meɪd͡ʒ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun

mage (plural magi or mages)

  1. (chiefly fantasy) A magician, wizard or sorcerer.
  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

Noun

mage

  1. plural of maag

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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
Declension
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

mage (uninflected)

  1. (dated) matching
    Synonym: 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

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”).

Verb

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

  1. to arrange
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Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. stomach

Usage notes

  • The plural form stays the same in every case.

French

Etymology

From Latin magus.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Noun

mage ? (plural ?)

  1. stomach

Japanese

Romanization

mage

  1. Rōmaji transcription of まげ

Latin

Noun

mage

  1. vocative singular of magus

References

  • “mage”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mage”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

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

Noun

māge f or m

  1. stomach
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • Dutch: maag
    • Afrikaans: maag
    • Negerhollands: maag
    • → Indonesian: mag
  • Limburgish: maag

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mâge

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

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Middle Low German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. stomach

Usage notes

  • The plural form stays the same in every case.

Synonyms

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

Descendants

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. abdomen, belly, stomach

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²mɑːjə/, /²mɑːɡə/

Noun

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

  1. abdomen, belly, stomach

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Verb

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

  • maga (a- or split infinitive)

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Swedish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

mage c

  1. stomach
  2. abdomen, belly (body part between thorax and pelvis)
    Synonyms: buk, abdomen, (colloquial) kagge
  3. (in idiomatic expressions) insolence, gall, cheek
    Ni hade alltså mage att komma oinbjudna?
    So you had the gall to come uninvited?

Declension

Declension of mage 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mage magen magar magarna
Genitive mages magens magars magarnas

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West Frisian

Etymology

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

Noun

mage c (plural magen, diminutive maachje)

  1. stomach

Further reading

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