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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈeɪ.dʒə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɚ/

名詞

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 Life Religiousness and Spirituality, 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.

3. (in compounds) One who belongs to a particular age or era.
   • 2004, Linda Bailey, Adventures in the Ice Age, Kids Can Press Ltd, →ISBN, page 48:

     The Ice Agers of this time invented new tools and technology and produced magnificent art.

   • 2008 December 26, Tim Moore, I Believe In Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History, Random House, →ISBN, page 42:

     "You were just watching people without any period skills faffing about - any Iron Ager would have known that if you cook chicken in the dark, you'll end up with food poisoning. We didn't learn anything about their period at all"

   • 2020 September 1, Michael McCarthy, The Hidden Hindenburg: The Untold Story of the Tragedy, the Nazi Secrets, and the Quest to Rule the Skies, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 66:

     Late Victorian Agers who witnessed cars replace horses, who lived through the dawn of radio and the recent discovery of a new planet named Pluto, joked that the world had come to this, that babies could now be conceived in the clouds.

同意語

• (elderly person): geriatric, oldster, senior citizen; see also Thesaurus:old person

派生語

アナグラム

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

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈa.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈaː.d͡ʒer]

名詞

ager m (genitive agrī); second declension

1. field; acre
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 2.346–353:

     Quod superest, quaecumque premēs virgulta per agrōs,
     Sparge fimō pinguī et multā memor occule terrā, […] .

     • Translation by James B. Greenough

       For the rest, whate’er / The sets thou plantest in thy fields, thereon / Strew refuse rich, and with abundant earth / Take heed to hide them, […] .

2. land; estate; park
   • 68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 3.15.5:

     Itaque exspecto Thessalonicae acta Kal. Sext., ex quibus statuam in tuosne agros confugiam, ut neque videam homines quos nolim et te, ut scribis, videam et propius sim si quid agatur, idque intellexi cum tibi tum Quinto fratri placere, an abeam Cyzicum.

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3. territory

   Ager Romanus ― The roman land possessions, as opposed to:

   Ager peregrinus ― foreign lands, territory

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.2:

     […] ūna ex parte flūmine Rhēnō lātissimō atque altissimō, quī agrum Helvētium ā Germānīs dīvidit; […] .

     […] on one side by the very wide and very deep Rhine River, which separates the Helvetian territory from the Germans; […] .

4. (chiefly plural only) country; countryside
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 3.32:

     Vastati agri sunt, urbs adsiduis exhausta funeribus; multae et clarae lugubres domus.

     The country was desolated, the city emptied out by continual deaths; many illustrious houses were in mourning.

5. terrain
6. soil

語形変化

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

派生語

派生した語

Borrowings

参照

• “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