passage

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English

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
• Hyphenation: pass‧age
• Rhymes: -æsɪdʒ

Noun

passage (plural passages)

1. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.

2. Part of a path or journey.

3. An incident or episode.
4. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. [from 17th c.]

5. The advance of time.

   Synonym: passing
6. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
7. A passageway or corridor.
8. (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.

9. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
10. (euphemistic) The vagina.
11. The act of passing; movement across or through.
12. The right to pass from one place to another.
13. A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
14. (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
15. (dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten. [from 15th c.]

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Verb

passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)

1. (medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.

2. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.

Adjective

passage (not comparable)

1. (falconry, attributive) Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.

Etymology 2

From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpasɑːʒ/

Noun

passage (plural passages)

1. (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.

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Verb

passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)

1. (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.

Further reading

• “passage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “passage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “passage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch passage, from Middle French passage, from Old French passage. Equivalent to passeren +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɑˈsaː.ʒə/
• Hyphenation: pas‧sa‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

passage f (plural passages, diminutive passagetje n)

1. a passage, a stage of a journey
2. a passageway, a corridor, a narrow route
3. a paragraph or section of text with particular meaning
4. a passage way in a city, especially a roofed shopping street

   Synonym: winkelpassage

Derived terms

• ecopassage
• faunapassage

Descendants

• → Indonesian: pasasê

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.saʒ/ ~ /pɑ.saʒ/
• Homophones: passagent, passages
• Rhymes: -aʒ

Etymology 1

From Old French, from passer +‎ -age.

Noun

passage m (plural passages)

1. the act of going through a place or event
2. the time when such an act occurs
3. (uncountable) Circulation, traffic, movement
4. (astronomy) Moment when a star or planet occults another, or crosses a meridian
5. a short stay
6. a trip or travel, especially by boat
7. the act of going from a state to another
8. graduation from a school year
9. the act of making something undergo a process
10. the act of handing something to someone
11. an access way
12. a laid out way allowing to go across something
13. an alley or alleyway off-limits to cars
14. a paragraph or section of text or music

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Czech: pasáž
• → German: Passage
• → Polish: pasaż
• → Portuguese: passagem
• → Romanian: pasaj
• → Russian: пасса́ж (passáž)
• → Turkish: pasaj
• → Persian: پاساژ (pâsâž)

Etymology 2

Verb form of passager.

Verb

passage

1. inflection of passager:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Old French

Noun

passage oblique singular, m (oblique plural passages, nominative singular passages, nominative plural passage)

1. passage (part of a route or journey)

Descendants

• Middle French: passage
  • → Middle Dutch: passage
    • Dutch: passage
      • → Indonesian: pasasê
  • French: passage
    • → Czech: pasáž
    • → German: Passage
    • → Polish: pasaż
    • → Portuguese: passagem
    • → Romanian: pasaj
    • → Russian: пасса́ж (passáž)
    • → Turkish: pasaj
    • → Persian: پاساژ (pâsâž)
• → Middle Armenian: բասաճ (basač)
• → Middle English: passage
  • English: passage
• → Irish: pasáiste
• → Swedish: passage

Swedish

Etymology

From Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈsɑːʂ/, /paˈsɑːɧ/

Noun

passage c

1. a passage (leading from one place to another)

   Synonym: genomgång

2. (a) passage, (a) transit (act of passing over, across, or through)
3. (astronomy) a transit
4. a passage (of text or music)
5. (dressage) passage

Declension

References

• passage in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• passage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• passage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)