âge

From Old French aage, aige, eage, from earlier edage. This either stems from a Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, from Latin aetās, or from Old French aé, eé (itself from Latin aetātem) + the suffix -age. The Latin aetās derives from a syncope of an earlier aevitās, from Proto-Italic *aiwotāts, from *aiwom + *-tāts, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital energy”), from *h₂ey-.

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• IPA^(key): /ɑʒ/

âge m (plural âges)

1. age

• âgé

• “âge” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).