Gage

Gage
This interesting and unusual name has two possible origins, both Norman (French), and introduced into Britain after the Conquest of 1066. Firstly, the modern surname "Gage", "Guage", "Gages" and "Gaiger" may be a metonymic occupational name for an assayer, someone employed as an official in charge of checking weights and measures, a measurer or tester. The derivation of this interpretation of the name is from the Old French and Middle English "gage, gauge", measure, a word thought to be ultimately of Germanic origin. Secondly, the modern surname can also be a metonymic occupational name for a moneylender or usurer, derived from the Old French and Middle English "gage", pledge, surety against which money was lent. The word is also of Germanic origin, but thought to be unrelated to the sense of "fixed measure". One Joseph Gage was sentenced to be transported to "Barbados or Jamaica" as a slave after his part in the ill-fated Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 and was shipped from Dorchester Gaol in December of that year. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Alice Gage, which was dated 1310, in the "Court Rolls of the Borough of Colchester", Essex, during the reign of King Edward 11, known as "Edward of Caernafon", 1307 - 1327. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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  • gage — gage …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • gagé — gagé …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • GAGE — Objet remis par un emprunteur à un prêteur pour garantir le remboursement d’un emprunt. Le prêt sur gage remonte à la plus haute antiquité. Il existait en Chine il y a 2 000 ou 3 000 ans. En Occident, on en retrouve la trace au Moyen Âge. La loi… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Gage — (franz.) bezeichnet das Honorar von Schauspielern und Künstlern im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert die Bezahlung der Offiziere (Sold) Gage ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Andrew Thomas Gage (1871–1945), schottischer Botaniker und Militärarzt… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • gage — Gage, m. penac. Ce mot tantost est verbe, et signifie ores soubmettre à gage pour seureté de quelque promesse, Pignori addicere, Selon ce les notaires és conceptions des stipulations disent, Tel promet et gage, et ores acquitter et payer l amende …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Gage — may refer to:In Measurement: * Gage is a widely used alternative spelling of the word gauge .In place names: *Gage County, Nebraska *Gage, New Mexico *Gage, Oklahoma *Gage Park, Chicago *Gage Street in Hong KongPersons named Gage: *Gage (surname) …   Wikipedia

  • gage — GAGE. s. m. Ce que l on met entre les mains de quelqu un pour seureté d une dette. Prester sur gages. mettre des pierreries en gage. retirer un gage, laisser quelque chose en gage. laisser des gages. prendre des gages. prendre en gage. vendre des …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • gagé — gagé, ée (ga jé, jée) part. passé de gager. 1°   Meubles gagés, ceux qui ont été saisis pour la sûreté de quelque dette. 2°   Mis en gageure. Un déjeuné gagé. 3°   Qui reçoit un salaire. •   Je suis auprès de lui gagé pour serviteur, Vous me… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • Gage — (g[=a]j), n. [So called because an English family named Gage imported the greengage from France, in the last century.] A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Gage — Sf Künstlerhonorar erw. fach. (17. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus frz. gages Pl. Löhnung, Sold , dem Plural von frz. gage m. Pfand, Spieleinsatz , (mit romanisch g < w) aus awfrk. * wadi Pfand, Einsatz (g. * wadja). Zunächst verwendet zur… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • Gage — (g[=a]j), n. [F. gage, LL. gadium, wadium; of German origin; cf. Goth. wadi, OHG. wetti, weti, akin to E. wed. See {Wed}, and cf. {Wage}, n.] 1. A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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