Where does “usage” come from?

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

usage (Middle French): habit; custom

Definitions

  1. habit; custom

Ancestry of “usage”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchusageusage; use; habit; custom
2Old French-ageforms nouns with the sense of 'action or result...
3Old Occitan-atgesuffix used to form masculine nouns
4Latin-āticum—

Words derived from “usage”

Every word from Latin -āticum →Every word from Old French -age →Every word from Old French usage →
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