Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin -āticum. Compare Occitan -atge.

Pronunciation edit

Suffix edit

-atge m (noun-forming suffix, plural -atges)

  1. -age; a noun that means “a unspecified quantity of some noun”
  2. -age, -ery; a noun that means “the state of being some noun”
  3. -age, -ing; a noun that means “the action or effect of some verb”

Derived terms edit

Occitan edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Occitan -atge, from Latin -āticum.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [adʒe] (or [adze], [adje])

Suffix edit

-atge m (plural -atges)

  1. -age; (a noun that means a unspecified quantity of some noun)
  2. -age, -ery; (a noun that means the state of being some noun)
  3. -age, -ing; (a noun that means the action or effect of some verb)

Derived terms edit

Old Occitan edit

Examples

vassalatge

Etymology edit

From Latin -aticum. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French -age, -aige, whence English -age.

Suffix edit

-atge

  1. suffix used to form masculine nouns

Descendants edit

  • Occitan: -atge