baggagen.adj.

Etymology: < Old French bagage (15th cent. in Littré) ‘property packed up for carriage’ (= Provençal bagatge , Spanish bagage ), < baguer ‘to tie up, bind, truss up,’ or < the cognate noun bagues , i.e. ‘bundles, packs’ (used, much earlier, in the same sense as the collective bagage ), plural of bague = Provençal bagua , Italian baga , late Latin baga ; compare bag n. Sense A. 4, not in French, is found in Spanish bagage; 6 and 7 have been referred by various etymologists to French bagasse (= Provençal baguassa, Spanish bagasa, Italian bagascia), with which they coincide in sense; but no formal connection has been traced; they also arise naturally enough out of those that precede, and seem really to be senses of this word, at most influenced in use by the French bagasse. The latter is itself of uncertain origin. See Littré.