Where does “volage” come from?
volage (Old French) comes from Latin volaticus, from Latin -aticus, from Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic -ātos, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos.
volage (Old French): flying; able to fly
Ancestry of “volage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | volaticus | winged, flying; flighty, inconstant |
| 2 | Latin | -aticus | Used to form adjectives indicating a relation to... |
| 3 | Latin | -ātus | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂tos | — |
Words derived from “volage”