-aje
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French -age or Old Occitan -atge, both from Latin -āticum. Doublet of -azgo. Cognate with French -age, Italian -aggio, Portuguese -agem, Romanian -aj.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-aje m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ajes)
- forms masculine nouns expressing an action, quantity, location, period of time, etc.
- aprendiz (“apprentice”) + -aje → aprendizaje (“apprenticeship”)
- voltio (“volt”) + -aje → voltaje (“voltage”)
- forms masculine nouns with the sense of collection; -age
- forms nouns
Derived terms
Further reading
- “-aje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Old French
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- Spanish terms borrowed from Old Occitan
- Spanish terms derived from Old Occitan
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish doublets
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/axe
- Rhymes:Spanish/axe/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish suffixes
- Spanish noun-forming suffixes
- Spanish countable suffixes
- Spanish masculine suffixes