Where does “spoilage” come from?
Spoilage comes from Middle English -age added to spoil, which derives from Old French spoil, from Latin spoliāre meaning to rob or strip, with the suffix -age ultimately tracing through Latin -āticum and -icus to Proto-Indo-European roots.
spoilage (English): The part of something that has spoiled; The...
Definitions
- The part of something that has spoiled; The...
Ancestry of “spoilage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | spoil | To strip of their arms or armour; To strip or... |
| 2 | Middle English | spoilen | — |
| 3 | Old French | espuler | — |
| 4 | Latin | spoliare | present active infinitive of spoliō;... |
| 5 | Latin | spolio | I strip, deprive or rob of covering or clothing,... |
| 6 | Latin | spolium | the skin or hide of an animal stripped off; the... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pel- | to split in two, split in half; to speak with a... |
Words derived from “spoilage”