agace

From Middle French, from Old French agace (“magpie”), from Old High German agaza, agalstra, agastra, aga (“magpie”), from Proto-Germanic *agatjō (“magpie”), from Proto-Indo-European *aḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare Occitan agaça, gacha, Italian gazza, and possibly Catalan garsa.

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡas/

• agasse, agache

agace f (plural agaces)

1. (dialectal, France, Belgium) magpie

From agacer.

agace

1. first-person singular present indicative of agacer
2. third-person singular present indicative of agacer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of agacer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of agacer
5. second-person singular imperative of agacer

• “agace” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).