Cage
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Middle English: via Old French from Latin cavea .
wiktionary
From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of jail.
etymonline
cage (n.)
"box-like receptacle or enclosure, with open spaces, made of wires, reeds, etc.," typically for confining domesticated birds or wild beasts, c. 1200, from Old French cage "cage, prison; retreat, hideout" (12c.), from Latin cavea "hollow place, enclosure for animals, coop, hive, stall, dungeon, spectators' seats in the theater" (source also of Italian gabbia "basket for fowls, coop;" see cave (n.)). From c. 1300 in English as "a cage for prisoners, jail, prison, a cell."
cage (v.)
"to confine in a cage, to shut up or confine," 1570s, from cage (n.). Related: Caged; caging.
