gaggio
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French gage, from Old French gage, from Frankish *waddi (a Germanic legal term).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gaggio m (plural gaggi) (obsolete)
- pledge, guarantee
- (law, finance) deposit, security, guaranty (guarantee that debt will be paid; property relinquished to ensure this)
- wage, salary
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto VI, page 108:
- « […] Ma nel commensurar d'i nostri gaggi ¶ col merto è parte di nostra letizia ¶ perché non li vedem minor né maggi. […] »
- « […] But in commensuration of our wages with our desert is portion of our joy, because we see them neither less nor greater. […] »
- (figurative) reward, prize
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- gaggio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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