âge

See also: age, Age, Agë, Åge, -age, and âgé

French

Etymology

From Middle French âge, from Old French aage, aige, eage, from earlier edage. This either stems from a Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, from Latin aetās, or from Old French aé, eé (itself from Latin aetātem) + the suffix -age. The Latin aetās derives from a syncope of an earlier aevitās, from Proto-Italic *aiwotāts, from *aiwom + *-tāts, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital energy”), from *h₂ey-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʒ/ ~ /ɑʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑʒ

Noun

âge m (plural âges)

1. age

Related terms

• âgé

Further reading

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