âge

Inherited from Old French aise. Cognate with French aise, Walloon åjhe and Franco-Provençal éso.

IPA^(key): /ɑʒ/

âge f (plural âges)

1. (Troyen) ease

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

Inherited from Middle French âge, from Old French aage, eage, edage, from Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem.

The transition from aé to aage was done by the addition of the suffix -age, apparently because the first form was too short; aé + -age.

• IPA^(key): /aʒ/ ~ /ɑʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑʒ
• Homophones: âges (general), age, ages (some speakers)

âge m (plural âges)

1. age

• “âge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.