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adage — [16] Adage was borrowed, via French, from Latin adagium ‘maxim, proverb’. This seems to have been formed from a variant of aio ‘I say’ plus the prefīx ad ‘to’. In the 16th and 17th centuries an alternative version, adagy, existed … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
adage — [16] Adage was borrowed, via French, from Latin adagium ‘maxim, proverb’. This seems to have been formed from a variant of aio ‘I say’ plus the prefīx ad ‘to’. In the 16th and 17th centuries an alternative version, adagy, existed … Word origins
