# passage
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Hyphenation: pass‧age
* Rhymes: -æsɪdʒ

#### Noun

passage (plural passages)
* A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
    passage of scripture
    She struggled to play the difficult passages.
* Part of a path or journey.
    He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
* An incident or episode.
** 1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961: Hearings:But there are those who do not feel that the sordid passages of life should be kept off the stage. It is a matter of opinion.
* The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. [from 17th c.]
    The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
* The advance of time.
    Synonym: passing
** 2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 209:The passage of decades has not erased the value of parental monitoring.
* (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
* A passageway or corridor.
* (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
    the Northwest Passage
* (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
* (euphemistic) The vagina.
** 1986, Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time‎, New American Library, →ISBN, page 463:With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]
** 1987, Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking, Jaico Publishing House, →ISBN, page 53:This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage.
** 2009, Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor, Medallion Press, →ISBN, page 249:At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.
* The act of passing; movement across or through.
** 1886, Pacific medical journal, volume 29:He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.
** 1954 February, “Notes and News: Deviation at Bramwith”, in Railway Magazine, page 137:When the scheme is completed, the 99-year-old swing bridge over the canal will be dispensed with as the new bridge will have sufficient height to allow clearance for the passage of canal traffic.
* The right to pass from one place to another.
* A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
* (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
* (dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten. [from 15th c.]

##### Derived terms

* back passage
* bird of passage
* clobber passage
* couldn't stop a pig in a passage
* cross-passage
* deck passage
* first passage time
* first-passage time
* innocent passage
* middle passage
* New Passage
* Northeast Passage
* Northwest Passage
* passage at arms
* passage boat
* passage grave
* passage house
* passage-house
* passage maker, passagemaker
* passage migrant
* passage of arms
* passage of time
* passage plan
* passage planning
* passage tomb
* passageway
* Passage West
* Restronguet Passage
* rite of passage
* screens passage
* time of pericenter passage
* time of pericentre passage
* Windward Passage
* with the passage of time
* work one's passage
* zenial passage
* zenithal passage

##### See also

* cotext
* locus

#### Verb

passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)
* (medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
    He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
    After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.
* (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
    They passaged to America in 1902.

#### Adjective

passage (not comparable)
* (falconry, attributive) Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.
    Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.

### Etymology 2

From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈpasɑːʒ/

#### Noun

passage (plural passages)
* (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.

##### Translations
#### Verb

passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)
* (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.
** 1915, Cunninghame Graham, Hope‎, page 18:After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash […]

### Further reading

* “passage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “passage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “passage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch passage, from Middle French passage, from Old French passage. Equivalent to passeren +‎ -age.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌpɑˈsaː.ʒə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pas‧sa‧ge
* Rhymes: -aːʒə

### Noun

passage f (plural passages, diminutive passagetje n)
* a passage, a stage of a journey
* a passageway, a corridor, a narrow route
* a paragraph or section of text with particular meaning
* a passage way in a city, especially a roofed shopping street
    Synonym: winkelpassage

#### Derived terms

* ecopassage
* faunapassage

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: pasasê

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.saʒ/ ~ /pɑ.saʒ/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Homophones: passagent, passages
* Rhymes: -aʒ

### Etymology 1

From Old French, from passer +‎ -age.

#### Noun

passage m (plural passages)
* the act of going through a place or event
* the time when such an act occurs
* (uncountable) Circulation, traffic, movement
* (astronomy) Moment when a star or planet occults another, or crosses a meridian
* a short stay
* a trip or travel, especially by boat
* the act of going from a state to another
* graduation from a school year
* the act of making something undergo a process
* the act of handing something to someone
* an access way
* a laid out way allowing to go across something
* an alley or alleyway off-limits to cars
* a paragraph or section of text or music

##### Derived terms

* de passage
* droit de passage
* oiseau de passage
* passage à l’acte
* passage à niveau
* passage à tabac
* passage à vide
* passage clouté
* passage en force
* passage piéton
* passage pour piétons
* passager
* passagèrement
* pigeon de passage
* rite de passage

##### Descendants

* → Czech: pasáž
* → German: Passage
* → Polish: pasaż
* → Portuguese: passagem
* → Romanian: pasaj
* → Russian: пасса́ж (passáž)
* → Turkish: pasaj
* → Persian: پاساژ (pâsâž)

### Etymology 2

Verb form of passager.

#### Verb

passage
* inflection of passager:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Old French
### Noun

passage oblique singular, m (oblique plural passages, nominative singular passages, nominative plural passage)
* passage (part of a route or journey)
** c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:Volez que je vos die gierres Del passage com il est max ?Do you want me to tell you Of the passage, how bad it is?

#### Descendants

* Middle French: passage
** → Middle Dutch: passage
*** Dutch: passage
**** → Indonesian: pasasê
** French: passage
*** → Czech: pasáž
*** → German: Passage
*** → Polish: pasaż
*** → Portuguese: passagem
*** → Romanian: pasaj
*** → Russian: пасса́ж (passáž)
*** → Turkish: pasaj
*** → Persian: پاساژ (pâsâž)
* → Middle Armenian: բասաճ (basač)
* → Middle English: passage
** English: passage
* → Irish: pasáiste
* → Swedish: passage

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paˈsɑːʂ/, /paˈsɑːɧ/

### Noun

passage c
* a passage (leading from one place to another)
    Synonym: genomgång
* (a) passage, (a) transit (act of passing over, across, or through)
* (astronomy) a transit
* a passage (of text or music)
* (dressage) passage

#### Declension
### References

* passage in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* passage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* passage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)