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The modern French spelling is aigu "acute", though English 'ague' is in origin the same word: an acute fever.
I think that in French, the "accent ague" (pronounced with the accent on the second syllable, {a'gü}) is the same as the acute accent, as in étude.
Can this refer to a kind of diacritic, or is WeirdNet acting up again? I can find the ocasional apparently supportive reference, e.g. to 'the umlaut in German or the ague accent in French', but checking other English dictionaries hasn't given me any results.
pronounced /'eIgju:/