jauge
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See also: jaugé
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Middle French jauge, from Old French jauge (“gauging rod”), from Frankish *galgā, *galgō (“measuring rod, pole”), from Proto-Germanic *galgô (“pole, stake, cross”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”). Cognate with Old High German galgo, Old Frisian galga, Old English ġealga (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse galgi (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse gelgja (“pole, perch”).
Noun
[edit]jauge f (plural jauges)
- gauge
- capacity
- Synonym: capacité
- 2021 April 26, Emmanuel Macron, quotee, “Covid-19 : Emmanuel Macron évoque un décalage du couvre-feu au-delà de 19 heures”, in Le Monde.fr[1]:
- A un enseignant qui lui demandait « rouvrir les châteaux » aux visites, le président a précisé que l’objectif était de rouvrir les lieux culturels « avec des jauges limitées et un accès privilégié pour les scolaires à partir de la mi-mai ».
- To a teacher who asked him to "reopen castles" to visits, the president said that the aim was to reopen cultural sites "with limited capacity and priority access for schoolchildren from the middle of May".
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]jauge
- inflection of jauger:
Further reading
[edit]- “jauge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Frankish *galgo, *galga, from Proto-Germanic *galgô (“rod”).
Noun
[edit]jauge oblique singular, f (oblique plural jauges, nominative singular jauge, nominative plural jauges)
Descendants
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