-age

Middle French

suffix
Definitions
  • 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"

Etymology

Inherited from Old French -age (-age) inherited from Latin -āticum (suffix forming a noun indicating a state of being resulting from an action).

Origin

Latin

-āticum

Gloss

suffix forming a noun indicating a state of being resulting from an action

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