potager

potager

English

Etymology

From Middle English pottager, from Middle French potager, from potage. The pronunciation is sometimes altered to imitate the pronunciation of French potager.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒtaʒeɪ/, /ˈpɒtədʒə/

Noun

potager (plural potagers)

1. A kitchen garden; sometimes used attributively.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 398:

     while he could not get into it until he obtained the keys from Bechet the notary, he had a picnic or two in the dilapidated garden and the herb potager, now run hopelessly to seed and weed.

2. (obsolete) A porringer.
   • 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis: Or, A Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and preſerved at Greſham Colledge, page 372,

     An INDIAN DISH or Potager. Made alſo of the Barque of a Tree, with the Sides and Rim ſewed together after the manner of Twiggen-Work.

Translations

kitchen garden

Hungarian: konyhakert (hu)

Anagrams

• Portage, portage, top gear

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.ta.ʒe/

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Etymology 1

potage +‎ -er

Adjective

potager (feminine potagère, masculine plural potagers, feminine plural potagères)

1. potager

Noun

potager m (plural potagers)

1. warming oven (a type of obsolete stone oven)

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of jardin potager.

Noun

Un potager

potager m (plural potagers)

1. vegetable garden

Further reading

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

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• potynger, potenger, poteger, potagere, potagare, podenger, pottyger

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French potager; equivalent to potage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔˈtaːdʒər(ə)/

Noun

potager (plural potagers)

1. A dish for soups and puddings; a porringer.
2. A cook who handles vegetables or soups.

Descendants

• English: pottager, potager; pottinger; porringer
• Scots: pottinger

References

• “potāǧer, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-22.
• “potāǧer(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-22.