bague

Borrowed from French bague (“ring”). Doublet of bee.

bague (plural bagues)

1. (architecture) An annular moulding or group of mouldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

• “bague”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Inherited from Middle French bague, possibly a borrowing from Middle Dutch bage, bagge (“ring”), of obscure origin, but likely from Old Frisian bāg, bāch (“ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, circlet”).

Compare Middle Low German bâge, bôge (“curve, arch, ring”), Old French wage (“ring”). Compare also Old French bage, Medieval Latin baga (“ring”) (also from the Proto-Germanic).

Another theory proposes a derivation from Latin baca (“berry”), plausible semantically, and comparable to Catalan baga (“ring”).

• IPA^(key): /baɡ/

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bague f (plural bagues)

1. ring
2. (architecture) bague

• Sango: bâge

• “bague”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• bauge

Of Germanic origin; see the French entry above.

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bague f (plural bagues)

1. (Jersey) ring (jewelry)
2. (Jersey) hawthorn berry, haw (fruit)