cage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A container made of bars or wire for keeping animals or birds.

   We keep a small bird in a cage at home.

2. 2
   verb

   To put or keep an animal in a cage.

   The lion was caged at the back of the zoo.

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Simplified etymology

Cage entered English in the Middle English period and ultimately goes back to Latin caveloa, “little cage,” from cavea, “hollow, cave, cell,” and cavus, “hollow.” It shares this origin with jail.

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.

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