-age
French
suffix
Definitions
- 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.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French -age 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
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -age English
- massage English
- *-aticum Latin
- *montāre Latin
- -agium Latin
- -āticum Latin
- -age Dutch, Flemish
- -isse French
- a- French
- aglacissage French
- aneigissage French
- glace French
- montage French
- neige French
- -aje Spanish, Castilian
- マッサージ Japanese
- -age Middle English
- -age Old French
- -aĵo Esperanto
- -aj Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- -ase Indonesian
- -age Middle French
- -age Old Portuguese
- -atge Old Occitan
- -aasch Low German