-axe

Galician

Alternative forms

• -age, -aje
• -agem (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese -age, from Old French -age or Old Occitan -atge, from Latin -āticum. Doublet of -ádego.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ʃɪ]

Suffix

-axe f (noun-forming suffix, plural -axes)

1. 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”)

2. forms collective nouns

   ‎crego (“priest”) + ‎-axe → ‎cregaxe (“clergy”)

   ‎tripa (“intestine”) + ‎-axe → ‎tripaxe (“guts”)

3. 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.
• another -uxe exists still frequent in use, from Latin -ugo in accusative (albuxe, ferruxe, peluxe, penuxe and maybe meluxe and viruxe).

Derived terms

From

Galician terms suffixed with -axe

cavaxe

cregaxe

fogaxe

follaxe

friaxe

gripaxe

hospedaxe

maraxe

marcaxe

romaxe

teaxe

tolaxe

tripaxe

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