marge

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)dʒ

From French marge, from Latin margo, of Germanic origin.

marge (plural marges)

1. (archaic) margin; edge; verge.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1

     […] And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,

     Where thou thyself dost air [...]

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

     the long curved crest

     Which swells out two leagues from the river marge.

   • 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses:

     Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."

Shortened from the word margarine.

marge (usually uncountable, plural marges)

1. (colloquial, Britain, New Zealand) margarine.

• Mager, e-gram, gamer, grame, regma

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan marge), from Latin margō, marginem (compare French marge, Portuguese margem), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-, marǵ-.

marge m (plural marges)

1. margin, edge
2. (economics) margin

• marginar

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marge f or m (plural marges, diminutive margetje n)

1. margin

• kantlijn

• mager

From Old French, from Latin margō, marginem, from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-, marǵ-.

• IPA^(key): /maʁʒ/

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marge f (plural marges)

1. margin (of paper, etc)

• en marge de
• marger

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

• germa

From Old Norse margir.

marge pl (comparative flair)

1. Many.

• margelónnom
• margföllu
• margehanda