Where does “badinage” come from?
Badinage comes from French badinage, derived from French badiner with the suffix -er, ultimately from Latin -are and -aticum, both containing the suffix -icus from Proto-Indo-European -kos.
badinage (English): Playful raillery; banter; To engage in badinage...
Definitions
- Playful raillery; banter; To engage in badinage...
Ancestry of “badinage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | badinage | joke; gag; wind-up; a trivial, simple task |
| 2 | French | -age | Forming nouns with the sense of "action or result... |
| 3 | Middle French | -age | forms nouns with the sense of "action or result... |
| 4 | Old French | -age | forms nouns with the sense of 'action or result... |
| 5 | Old Occitan | -atge | suffix used to form masculine nouns |
| 6 | Latin | -āticum | — |