mage

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.

• enPR: māj, IPA^(key): /meɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

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.

• (practitioner of allegedly supernatural magic): magic user, spellcaster, enchanter, conjurer, thaumaturge, theurgist
• (spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts): spiritualist, mystic, shaman, witch doctor

• MEGA, Mega, game, mega, mega-

mage

1. plural of maag

• IPA^(key): [ˈmæːjə], [ˈmæːæ]

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

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!

• mage til, magen til ("identical", lit. "(the) match of")

• “mage,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “mage,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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.

• “mage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “mage,3” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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

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

1. (archaic, often humorous) to arrange, organize

• “mage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “mage,5” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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

• IPA^(key): [mɒːɣə], IPA^(key): [mɔːɣə] (more on the merger of monophthongal A and O)

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

1. stomach

• The plural form stays the same in every case.

From Latin magus.

• IPA^(key): /maʒ/
• Rhymes: -aʒ

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

• magie
• roi mage

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

• méga

mage ? (plural ?)

1. stomach

mage

1. Rōmaji transcription of まげ

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.ɡɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.d͡ʒe]

mage

1. vocative singular of magus

From the adverbial suffix -ē.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.ɡeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.d͡ʒe]

magē (not comparable)

1. alternative form of magis

• “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

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

māge f or m

1. stomach

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mâge

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

• “maghe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “mage (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

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

• IPA^(key): /maːɣə/

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

1. stomach

• The plural form stays the same in every case.

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

• Low German:
  • German Low German: Mage, Maag
  • Westphalian:

    Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Māge

    Sauerländisch: Māge

    Westmünsterländian: Maagen, Maage

• Plautdietsch: Moag

• mave

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

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

1. abdomen, belly, stomach

• underliv

• “mage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /²mɑːjə/, /²mɑːɡə/

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

1. abdomen, belly, stomach

• maga, magje, maagaa, mågå, måvå, måvvå (dialectal)

• buk
• underliv

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

• maga (a- or split infinitive)

• “mage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• game, gema, mega-

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.ɡe/, [ˈmɑ.ɣe]

mage

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

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

• IPA^(key): /²mɑːɡɛ/

• Audio:

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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?

• ha is i magen – to be calm and cool under pressure; "to have ice in the stomach"
• ha mage – to have the insolence to do something; "to have stomach (for something)"
• hård i magen – having difficulty passing excrements, being constipated; "hard stomach"
• lös i magen – having loose bowels; "soft/loose stomach"

• mage in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• mega-

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

mage c (plural magen, diminutive maachje)

1. stomach

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