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Where does “sabotaje” come from?

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

Ancestry of “sabotaje”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsabotagesabotage
2French-ageForming nouns with the sense of "action or result...
3Middle French-ageforms nouns with the sense of "action or result...
4Old French-ageforms nouns with the sense of 'action or result...
5Old Occitan-atgesuffix used to form masculine nouns
6Latin-āticum—
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