Where does “-age” come from?

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

-age (Middle French): forms nouns with the sense of "action or result...

Definitions

  1. forms nouns with the sense of "action or result...

Ancestry of “-age”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old French-ageforms nouns with the sense of 'action or result...
2Old Occitan-atgesuffix used to form masculine nouns
3Latin-āticum

Words derived from “-age

Every word from Latin -āticum