Where does “concubinage” come from?
Concubinage derives from French concubinage, formed with the French suffix -age (from Middle French -age, from Latin -aticum, from Latin -icus, from Proto-Indo-European -kos), a productive suffix denoting a state or condition.
concubinage (English): The state of cohabiting or living together as man...
Definitions
- The state of cohabiting or living together as man...
Ancestry of “concubinage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | concubinage | concubinage |
| 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 | — |