English word age comes from Latin aevum, French -age, French aé, Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰlo-, and later Latin *aetaticum (Age.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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aevum | Latin (lat) | (Medieval Latin, philosophy) aevum, the mean between time and eternity, aeviternity. Lifetime, age, generation. Time, eternity. |
-age | French (fra) | (rare) Forming collective nouns.. Forming nouns with the sense of "action or result of Xing" or, more rarely, "action related to X".. Forming nouns with the sense of "state of being (a) X". |
aé | French (fra) | |
*h₂egʰlo- | Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro) | |
*aetaticum | Latin (lat) | Age. |
aevitas | Latin (lat) | |
*h₂égʰos | Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro) | (emotional) distress. |
*aetaticum | Vulgar Latin (la-vul) | |
äage | French (fra) | |
*agaz | Proto-Germanic (gem-pro) | Fear; dread. |
agi | Old Norse (non) | |
aage | Old French (fro) | Age. |
age | Anglo-Norman (xno) | |
age | Old French (fro) | |
age | Middle English (enm) | |
age | English (eng) | (countable) A generation.. (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.. (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.. (countable) A period of one hundred years; a century.. (countable) One of the stages of life.. (countable) The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.. (countable) The people [...] |