-axe

• -age, -aje

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ʃɪ]

-axe

1. Forms uncountable nouns, from verbs, meaning the practice of doing what is expressed by the verb.

   ‎cavar (“to dig”) + ‎-axe → ‎cavaxe (“digging”)

   ‎reciclar (“to recycle”) + ‎-axe → ‎reciclaxe (“recycling”)

   Synonym: -mento

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”)

• -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.