-age
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French -age, from Latin -aticum. Cognates include Spanish -aje and Italian -aggio.
Suffix [edit]
-age
- Forming nouns with the sense of collection or appurtenance.
Synonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Dutch [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French -age.
Suffix [edit]
-age
Creates nouns from verbs (lekken – lekkage) and from other nouns (tuig – tuigage). It denotes
Derived terms [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle French -age, from Old French -age, from the Latin ending -aticum, greatly extended from words like rivage and voyage.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /aʒ/
Suffix [edit]
-age
- Forming nouns with the sense of "action or result of Xing" or, more rarely, "action related to X".
- Forming nouns with the sense of "state of being (a) X"
- (rare) Forming collective nouns.
See also [edit]
Usage notes [edit]
- Although the historical suffix has had many applications (e.g. family relationships, lcoations), it is now restricted primarily to the sense of "action of Xing", and many terms now have little to no connection with the most common uses. This is especially notable of those descended from actual Latin words in -aticus such as fromage and voyage.
Japanese [edit]
Romanization [edit]
-age
- See あげ
Middle French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French -age, from Latin -āticum.
Suffix [edit]
-age
- forms nouns with the sense of "action or result of Xing" or, more rarely, "action related to X"
- forms nouns with the sense of "state of being (a) X"
Derived terms [edit]
Descendants [edit]
- French: -age
Occitan [edit]
Suffix [edit]
-age
- (Mistralian) Alternative form of -atge.
Old French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin -āticum.
Suffix [edit]
-age
- forms nouns with the sense of "action or result of Xing" or, more rarely, "action related to X"
- forms nouns with the sense of "state of being (a) X"
Derived terms [edit]
Descendants [edit]
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English suffixes
- English noun-forming suffixes
- English productive suffixes
- Dutch terms derived from French
- Dutch suffixes
- Dutch noun-forming suffixes
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Latin
- French suffixes
- French terms with rare senses
- Japanese romaji
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Latin
- Middle French suffixes
- Occitan suffixes
- Mistralian Occitan
- Occitan alternative forms
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French suffixes
