auge

See also: Auge, augé, and auge-

Catalan

Etymology

From Arabic أَوْج (ʔawj), from Persian اوگ (owg).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈaw.ʒə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈaw.d͡ʒe]

Noun

auge m (plural auges)

1. apogee
2. peak, zenith

French

Etymology

From Latin alveus; according to the TLFi etymological dictionary, it was a (very early) borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oʒ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

auge f (plural auges)

1. trough (long, narrow container for feeding animals)
2. (masonry) mixing tub, mortar box (pan or tub for mixing mortar)
3. bucket (of a water wheel)
4. (anatomy) intermandibular region (of a horse or other mammal)

Verb

auge

1. inflection of auger:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic أَوْج (ʔawj), from Persian اوگ (owg). Compare Catalan and Spanish auge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -awdʒe
• Hyphenation: àu‧ge

Noun

auge f (plural augi)

1. (astronomy) apogee

   Synonym: apogeo

2. (figurative) height, apex

   essere all’auge della gioventù ― to be in the prime of youth

   essere in auge ― to be in vogue

Further reading

• auge in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.ɡeː/, [ˈäu̯ɡeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.d͡ʒe/, [ˈäːu̯d͡ʒe]

Verb

augē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of augeō

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²æʉ̯ɡə/

Noun

auge n (definite singular auget, indefinite plural auge, definite plural auga)

1. Alternative form of auga

Derived terms

• iaugefallande
• nålauge

Portuguese

Etymology

From Arabic أَوْج (ʔawj), from Persian اوگ (owg).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ʒi/ [ˈaʊ̯.ʒi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ʒi/ [ˈaʊ̯.ʒi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ʒe/ [ˈaʊ̯.ʒe]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ʒɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -awʒi, (Portugal) -awʒɨ
• Hyphenation: au‧ge

Noun

auge m (plural auges)

1. height, peak

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic أَوْج (ʔawj), from Persian اوگ (owg). Spelling with g influenced by Latin augēre (“to wax, to increase”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈauxe/ [ˈau̯.xe]
• Rhymes: -auxe
• Syllabification: au‧ge

Noun

auge m (plural auges)

1. boom, rise, growth

   en auge ― on the rise; booming

   • 2020 January 18, Jaime Santirso, “El lado oscuro de TikTok, el rey chino de los vídeos relámpago”, in El País‎^[1]:

     El auge de la plataforma, además, subraya la pujanza tecnológica del gigante asiático.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (also figurative) peak, zenith, heyday

   Synonym: cenit

Derived terms

• auge y caída (“rise and fall, boom and bust”)

 

Further reading

• “auge”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10