verge

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
2. (UK, historical) A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
3. An edge or border.
4. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, Western) An edge or border.
5. (figuratively) An edge or border.
6. (obsolete) The phallus.
7. (obsolete) The phallus.
8. An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
9. A circumference; a circle; a ring.
10. The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
11. The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
12. The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
2. To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.

Concepts

bord

accotement

berme

bas-côté

côté

extrémité

périphérie

plate-bande

point

presque

sceptre

seuil

veille

verge

orée

baguette

bordure

bout

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Synonymes

edge

brink

border

brim

margin

rim

berm

shoulder

wand

extremity

approach

threshold

sceptre

side

trend

tip

end

🔚

incline

tend

scepter

ledge

limb

verge of a road

baton

cant

fringe

staff

proximity

lip

rod

extend

environs

elongation

boundary

bank

🏦

elongating

drub

lean

decline

bound

bandy

just about

cusp

ingot

inflect

kerb

crook

imminent

conjugate

hem

Traductions

Rand

borde

beira

orlo

bordo

Ortgang

berm

όχθη

άκρο

πλαίσιο

ακροποταμιά

kevî

حافة

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/vɜːd͡ʒ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed from Middle French verge (“rod or wand of office”), hence "scope, territory dominated", from Latin virga (“shoot, rod stick”), of unknown origin. Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c.1400). Modern sense is from the notion of 'within the verge' (1509, also as Anglo-Norman dedeinz la verge), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the royal court, which sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area." Doublet of virga.