ager

age +‎ -er

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.dʒə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.dʒɚ/

ager (plural agers)

1. One who or that which ages something.
2. (euphemistic) One who is aging; an elderly person.
   • 1965, Richard Hays Williams, Claudine G. Wirths, Lives Through the Years: Styles of Life and Successful Aging, Transaction Publishers →ISBN, page 165

     When the aging person depends on another, the control of the aged one's life space is placed in the hands of another person who may or may not contribute action energy that is appropriate or acceptable from the standpoint of the ager.

   • 2006, Gloria Davenport, Working with Toxic Older Adults: A Guide to Coping with Difficult Elders, Springer Publishing Company →ISBN, page 143

     Inappropriate behavior then erupts from the agers involved, disturbing everyone around, including the agers themselves, who often do not understand what is happening and struggle excessively to maintain rigid control of old perceptions and self images.

   • 2014, Susan H. Mcfadden, Mark Brennan, NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF LATE, Routledge →ISBN, page 62

     This definition of success is located in society's structures and suits society, not the agers. Successful ageing is arguably therefore a socially constructed phenomenon, characterized by lack of “noise,” maintenance of youthful status until death, and a dogged engagement with social structures which appear almost as if designed to discourage the engagement of older people.

• GRAE, Gera, Rega, areg, gare, gear, rage

From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”).

• IPA^(key): /aːˀər/, [ˈæːˀjɐ], [ˈæːˀɐ]
• Rhymes: -aːˀər

ager c (singular definite ageren, plural indefinite agre)

1. field

See age (“drive”).

• IPA^(key): /aːjər/, [ˈæːjɐ]

ager

1. present of age

See agere (“act, play”).

• IPA^(key): /aɡeːr/, [aˈɡ̥eɐ̯ˀ]

ager or agér

1. imperative of agere

Borrowed recently from Latin ager (“field”). Cf. also aire, possibly a doublet.

• IPA^(key): /a.ʒɛʁ/

ager m (plural agers)

1. (historical) medieval territory
2. (geographical) Mediterranean terrain

From Proto-Italic *agros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra) and Old English æcer (English acre).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡer/, [ˈa.ɡɛr]

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ager m (genitive agrī); second declension

1. field, farm
2. land, estate, park
3. territory, country
4. terrain
5. soil

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

• Aromanian: agru
• French: ager, aire
• Galician: agro, agra
• Italian: agro
• Megleno-Romanian: agru
• Old Occitan: agre
• Portuguese: agro
• Romanian: agru
• Spanish: agro

• ager in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ager in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ager in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to irrigate fields: agros irrigare
    
  • the river floods the fields: flumen agros inundat
    
  • to settle a large number of people in a country: multitudinem in agris collocare
    
  • to till the ground: agrum colere (Leg. Agr. 2. 25. 67)
    
  • to leave fertile ground untilled: agros fertiles deserere
    
  • to live in the country: in agris esse, habitare
    
  • the corn is not yet ripe: frumenta in agris matura non sunt (B. G. 1. 16. 2)
    
  • public land; state domain: ager publicus
    
  • to allot land: agros assignare (Leg. Agr. 1. 6. 17)
    
  • to make an inroad into hostile territory: excursionem in hostium agros facere
    
• ager in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ager in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Inherited from Latin agilis (“swift”). Doublet of agil, a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒer/

ager m or n (feminine singular ageră, masculine plural ageri, feminine and neuter plural agere)

1. quick, swift.
2. smart, cunning, sharp.
3. (of objects) sharp

• (sharp): ascuțit

• agil

From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz.

• IPA^(key): [ɑ́ːɣɐ]

ager m

1. a field

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈaɡɛr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈaːɡɛr/, /ˈaɡɛr/

ager m (plural agerau)

1. steam

   Synonyms: stêm, anwedd