-age
a suffix typically forming m-ss 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 “quant-ty, measure, or charge” (footage; shortage; tonnage; towage).
-age
suffix
indicating a collection, set, or group acreage, baggage
indicating a process or action or the result of an action haulage, p-ssage, breakage
indicating a state, condition, or relationship bondage, parentage
indicating a house or place orphanage
indicating a charge or fee postage
indicating a rate dosage, mileage
word origin
from old french, from late latin -ātic-m, noun suffix, neuter of -āticus, adjectival suffix, from -ātus-ate1 + -icus-ic
-age
suffix forming nouns of act, process, function, condition, from o.fr./fr. -age, from l.l. -atic-m “belonging to, related to,” originally neut. adj. suffix, from l. -atus, pp. suffix of verbs of the first conjugation.
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