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"ref": "2008, Arturo Morales-Muñes, Eufrasia Roselló-Izquierdo, “11: Twenty Thousand Years of Fishing in the Strait”, in Torben C. Rick, Jon M. Erlandson, editors, Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective, page 261",
"text": "It is striking that these represent meagres (Argyrosomus regius), a species never mentioned in classical texts.",
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"ref": "2011, John S. Lucas, Paul C. Southgate, Aquaculture: Farming Aquatic Animals and Plants, unnumbered page",
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"ref": "1961 February, D. Bertram, “The lines to Wetherby and their traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 103",
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"ref": "1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17",
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"Rhymes:English/iːɡə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"en:Croakers"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "megre"
},
"expansion": "Middle English megre",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "xno",
"3": "megre"
},
"expansion": "Anglo-Norman megre",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "maigre"
},
"expansion": "Old French maigre",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "macer",
"4": "macer, macrum"
},
"expansion": "Latin macer, macrum",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*mh₂ḱrós"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "mæġer",
"3": "",
"4": "meagre, lean"
},
"expansion": "Old English mæġer (“meagre, lean”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "mager",
"3": "",
"4": "lean"
},
"expansion": "Dutch mager (“lean”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "mager",
"3": "",
"4": "lean"
},
"expansion": "German mager (“lean”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "magur",
"3": "",
"4": "lean"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic magur (“lean”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English megre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with Old English mæġer (“meagre, lean”), Dutch mager (“lean”), German mager (“lean”), Icelandic magur (“lean”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "meagres",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "meagring",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "meagred",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "meagred",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "meagre (third-person singular simple present meagres, present participle meagring, simple past and past participle meagred)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"mea‧gre"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1862, Robert Thomas Wilson, edited by Herbert Randolph, Life of General Sir Robert Wilson, page 275",
"text": "I am meagred to a skeleton; my nose is broiled to flaming heat, and I am suffering the greatest inconvenience from the loss of my baggage which I fear the enemy have taken with my servant at Konigsberg.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make lean."
],
"links": [
[
"lean",
"lean"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make lean."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmiːɡɚ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːɡə(ɹ)"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-meagre.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c9/En-us-meagre.ogg/En-us-meagre.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/En-us-meagre.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "meager"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"meagre"
],
"word": "meagre"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": gorbylʹ vs. obyknovénnyj",
"path": [
"meagre"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "meagre",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": obyknovénnyj vs. serebrístyj",
"path": [
"meagre"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "meagre",
"trace": ""
}
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