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adage
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.