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Where does “coqüage” come from?

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

coqüage (Middle French): cuckoldry

Definitions

  1. cuckoldry

Ancestry of “coqüage”, step by step

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