piger

piger c

1. indefinite plural of pige

Believed to be derived from an adjective meaning "caught", from Late Latin *pedicus, from Latin pedica (“snare, shackle, fetter”), and therefore doublet of piéger.

• IPA^(key): /pi.ʒe/

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piger

1. (informal, slang) to understand; to get, to catch on, to twig, to cotton on

   Synonym: entraver

2. (Canada) to choose at random; to draw

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written pige- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

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

From pigeō (“to feel annoyance at, feel reluctance at”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *peyǵ- (“ill-meaning, evil-minded, treacherous, hostile, bad”). Related to Old English ġefic (“fraud, deceit, deception”), Old English fācen (“deceit, fraud, treachery, sin, evil, crime, blemish, fault”), Middle High German veichen (“dissembling, deceit, fraud”), though De Vaan is skeptical of the links to the Germanic terms.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ɡer/, [ˈpɪɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.d͡ʒer/, [ˈpiːd͡ʒer]

piger (feminine pigra, neuter pigrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. backward, slow, dull, lazy, indolent, sluggish, inactive

   Synonyms: dēses, iners, sēgnis, ignāvus, socors, murcidus, languidus

   Antonyms: vīvus, strēnuus, impiger, alacer, ācer

2. unwilling, reluctant, averse

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

• pigrō
• pigritia

• Italian: pigro
  • → Esperanto: pigra
• Spanish: pigre, pigro

• “piger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “piger”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• piger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• piger in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016