Where does “mitraillage” come from?

mitraillage (French) comes from French -age, from Middle French -age, from Old French -age, from Old Occitan -atge, from Latin -āticum.

mitraillage (French): machine-gunning, strafing

Definitions

  1. machine-gunning, strafing

Ancestry of “mitraillage”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1French-ageForming nouns with the sense of "action or result...
2Middle French-ageforms nouns with the sense of "action or result...
3Old French-ageforms nouns with the sense of 'action or result...
4Old Occitan-atgesuffix used to form masculine nouns
5Latin-āticum
Every word from Latin -āticumEvery word from French -ageEvery word from Old French -age