Where does “dotage” come from?
Dotage comes from Middle English dotage, from Old French -age, from Latin -aticum, from Latin -aticus, from Latin -icus, from Proto-Indo-European -kos and Proto-Indo-European -eh₂tos.
dotage (English): Decline in judgment and other cognitive...
Definitions
- Decline in judgment and other cognitive...
Ancestry of “dotage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | dotage | Behaviour that is stupid or ill-advised;... |
| 2 | Middle English | -age | Forms nouns indicating a right or relationship;... |
| 3 | Old French | -age | forms nouns with the sense of 'action or result... |
| 4 | Old Occitan | -atge | suffix used to form masculine nouns |
| 5 | Latin | -āticum | — |