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Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese -age, from Old French -age or Old Occitan -atge, from Latin -āticum. Doublet of -ádego.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-axe f (noun-forming suffix, plural -axes)
- forms uncountable action nouns from verbs, whose meaning expresses the action of doing the verb
- Synonym: -mento
- cavar (“to dig”) + -axe → cavaxe (“digging”)
- reciclar (“to recycle”) + -axe → reciclaxe (“recycling”)
- forms collective nouns
- crego (“priest”) + -axe → cregaxe (“clergy”)
- tripa (“intestine”) + -axe → tripaxe (“guts”)
- forms nouns for concepts related to the suffixed word
- frío (“cold”) + -axe → friaxe (“coldness”)
- por cento (“percent”) + -axe → porcentaxe (“percentage”)
- tolo (“fool”) + -axe → tolaxe (“foolishness; nonsense”)
Usage notes
- -axe also exists, not as a suffix, in words descending from a Latin word with -āginem (accusative singular of -āgō). For example: imaxe, from imāginem.
Derived terms
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