Where does “usage” come from?

Usage comes from Old French usage, meaning customary practice or habit.

usage (English): The manner or the amount of using; use; Habit or...

Definitions

  1. The manner or the amount of using; use; Habit or...

Ancestry of “usage”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishusage
2Old Frenchusageusage; use; habit; custom
3Old French-ageforms nouns with the sense of 'action or result...
4Old Occitan-atgesuffix used to form masculine nouns
5Latin-āticum

Words derived from “usage

Every word from Latin -āticum
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