Lage

Variant of Lauge.

Lage

1. a male given name

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːɡə/

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• Hyphenation: La‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːɡə
• Homophone: Laage

From Middle High German lāge (“state of lying, reclining; esp. in ambush; situation; storehouse”), from Old High German lāga (“state of lying; ambush”). ^[1][2][3] By surface analysis, deverbal from liegen. Related to Lager (“storeroom; camp”), Liege f (“daybed”). Compare English lie as in the lie of the land.

Lage f (genitive Lage, plural Lagen)

1. location, position
2. situation, condition
3. thickness (layer)

• Legung f
• Lager m
• Liege f

• Zustand
• Position
• Situation

Referring to its lower and possibly slope position in comparison to nearby hills.

Lage n (proper noun, genitive Lages or (optionally with an article) Lage)

1. A city in Lippe district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
2. A municipality of County of Bentheim district, Lower Saxony, Germany

• “Lage” in Duden online
• “Lage” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Lage”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
• “Lage” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

Borrowed from Danish Lage.

Lage c (genitive Lages)

1. a male given name

• lega