venger

From Middle English venger, vengere, vengeour, vengeur, from Old French vengeor, vengeur.^[1] By surface analysis, venge +‎ -er.

venger (plural vengers)

1. Obsolete form of avenger.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 37:

     His bleeding hart is in the vengers hand, / VVho ſtreight him rent in thouſand peeces ſmall, […]

   • 1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Mutiny of the Mavericks:

     And the hand of the venger shall never be stayed / Till his race, faith, and speech are a dream of the past

• revenger
• avenger

• “venger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• greven

Inherited from Middle French venger, vengier, from Old French vengier, from Latin vindicāre.

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃.ʒe/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: vengé, vengeai, vengée, vengées, vengés, vengez

venger

1. to avenge, to take revenge (upon)

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written venge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

• vengeance
• vengeur

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

• vengar

venger m

1. indefinite plural of veng

venger

1. alternative form of vengier

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. In addition, g becomes j before an a or an o to keep the /dʒ/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.