-age
-age
a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech, occurring originally in loanwords from French ( voyage; courage ) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” ( coinage; peerage; trackage ), “process” ( coverage; breakage ), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of” ( seepage; wreckage; spoilage ), “place of living or business” ( parsonage; brokerage ), “social standing or relationship” ( bondage; marriage; patronage ), and “quantity, measure, or charge” ( footage; shortage; tonnage; towage ).
Origin:
Middle English < Old French < Latin -āticum, neuter of -āticus adj. suffix; an extension of Latin -āta -ate1, whose range of senses it reflects closely
Middle English < Old French < Latin -āticum, neuter of -āticus adj. suffix; an extension of Latin -āta -ate1, whose range of senses it reflects closely
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| -age | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| 1. | indicating a collection, set, or group: acreage; baggage |
| 2. | indicating a process or action or the result of an action: haulage; passage; breakage |
| 3. | indicating a state, condition, or relationship: bondage; parentage |
| 4. | indicating a house or place: orphanage |
| 5. | indicating a charge or fee: postage |
| 6. | indicating a rate: dosage; mileage |
| [from Old French, from Late Latin -āticum, noun suffix, neuter of -āticus, adjectival suffix, from -ātus | |
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-age
suffix forming nouns of act, process, function, condition, from O.Fr./Fr. -age, from L.L. -aticum "belonging to, related to," originally neut. adj. suffix, from L. -atus, pp. suffix of verbs of the first conjugation.
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