Noun: cage
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | cage |
| Plural f | cages |
Sample Sentences
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cage d'escalier (staircase)
Nouns inflected like cage
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. This form did not undergo the palatalization of c before a. See: Latin Nouns '
cavea'.
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