Etymology

teenage

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Today it means: Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old. Full definition →

English age ← Middle English age ← Old French eage
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teenage · adjective1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*déḱm̥
  2. Proto-Germanic*tehun
  3. Proto-West Germanic*tehun
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ey-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂óyu
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂oywom
  7. Proto-Italic*aiwom
  8. Proto-Italic*aiwotāts
  9. Latinaetātem
  10. Vulgar Latin*aetāticum
  11. Old Frencheage
  12. Middle Englishage
  13. Englishage
  14. English todayteenage

From -teen + age. First attested in 1921.

teenage · noun2

From teen (Kentish variant of tine (“enclose within a wattle fence”)) + -age (suffix forming abstract nouns). First attested circa 1700.

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