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Where does “fixage” come from?

fixage (French) comes from French fixer, from Middle French fixer, from Middle French -er, from Old French -ier, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.

fixage (French): fixing

Definitions

  1. fixing

Ancestry of “fixage”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchfixerto fix, fasten; to fix, arrange, set; to settle
2Middle Frenchfixer—
3Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
4Old French-iersuffix used to form infinitives of first...
5Latin-ārius—
6Proto-Italic*-āzios—
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