-aje
See also: aje, AJA, AJE, áje, and ajé
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
- IPA(key): /ˈaxe/ [ˈa.xe]
- Rhymes: -axe
- Syllabification: -a‧je
Suffix
-aje m (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
- pluma + -aje → plumaje (“plumage”)
- Forms nouns
- lengua + -aje → lenguaje
Derived terms
Spanish terms suffixed with -aje
Further reading
- “-aje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014