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Where does “サボタージ” come from?

サボタージ (Japanese) comes from English sabotage, from French sabotage, from French -age, from Middle French -age, from Old French -age, from Old Occitan -atge, from Latin -āticum.

サボタージ (Japanese): sabotage; to sabotage

Definitions

  1. sabotage; to sabotage

Ancestry of “サボタージ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsabotageA deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy...
2Frenchsabotagesabotage
3French-ageForming nouns with the sense of "action or result...
4Middle French-ageforms nouns with the sense of "action or result...
5Old French-ageforms nouns with the sense of 'action or result...
6Old Occitan-atgesuffix used to form masculine nouns
7Latin-āticum—
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