"usage" meaning in French

See usage in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /y.zaʒ/ Audio: Fr-usage.ogg Forms: usages [plural]
Etymology: From Latin ūsus + -age. Compare Medieval Latin usagium. Etymology templates: {{der|fr|la|ūsus}} Latin ūsus, {{af|fr|-age}} -age, {{der|fr|ML.|usagium}} Medieval Latin usagium Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} usage m (plural usages)
  1. usage, use Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-usage-fr-noun-wQ6pL7mV
  2. (lexicography) the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are actually used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis (as opposed to correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority) Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Lexicography
    Sense id: en-usage-fr-noun--ygMCTbm Categories (other): Old French entries with incorrect language header, French entries with incorrect language header, French terms suffixed with -age Disambiguation of Old French entries with incorrect language header: 13 13 16 16 16 1 14 6 1 4 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of French terms suffixed with -age: 24 76 Topics: human-sciences, lexicography, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: d’usage, en usage, faire usage, hors d’usage Related terms: usager, descriptif, normatif

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for usage meaning in French (2.7kB)

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