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A suffix used to form nouns denoting an action (breakage; spillage), a condition or function (bondage; a peerage), an aggregate or number of (coverage; the peerage; acreage), fees payable for; the cost of using (postage), the product of an action (dosage; wreckage), a place; an abode (anchorage; orphanage; parsonage).
Origin: Old French, ultimately from Latin -aticum, neut. of adjectival suffix -aticus -atic
(06 Feb 2009)
agastroneuria, agate, A Gaussel, agave, age < Prev | Next > age-class, aged, aged, 80 and over
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