Where does “-age” come from?

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

-age (Old 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 Occitan-atgesuffix used to form masculine nouns
2Latin-āticum—

Words derived from “-age”

Every word from Latin -āticum →Every word from Old Occitan -atge →