-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