agere

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /eɪdʒˈɹiː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /eɪdʒˈɹi/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: age‧re

agere (countable and uncountable, plural ageres)

1. (uncountable) Clipping of age regression.
2. (countable) Clipping of age regressor.

• agere sequitur esse

• agree, Eager, aeger, eager, eagre, geare, æger

Borrowed from Latin agō (“I do, act”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. Cognate with Swedish agera, also borrowed from the Latin word. See also Danish age, which was inherited from Old Norse aka, from the same Proto-Indo-European verb.

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡeˀʌ/

agere (imperative ager, infinitive at agere, present tense agerer, past tense agerede, perfect tense ageret)

1. to act
2. to play

• “agere” in Den Danske Ordbog

agere

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of ageren

• ageer

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɡɛ.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.d͡ʒe.re]

agere

1. inflection of agō:
   1. second-person singular present passive indicative/imperative
   2. present active infinitive

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɡeː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈd͡ʒɛː.re]

agēre

1. second-person singular future passive indicative of agō

Ultimately from Proto-North Halmahera (likely of the form *ager); compare Galela age, Tabaru 'agere, Ternate age.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡe.ɾe/

agere

1. a tree trunk, stump

• M. J. van Baarda (1904), Het Lòda'sch, in vergelijking met het Galėla'sch dialect op Halmaheira

• IPA^(key): /à.ɡé.ɾé/

àgéré

1. (usually in the plural) stilt
2. (by extension) heels; high-heeled shoes