Etymograph

English

info age

Info age comes from English info ‘information’.

  1. English1500–presentinfo‘information’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1999info age

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentinfo‘information’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1999info age

Earliest quotation: 1999, Bob Sipchen, Techy Feely: “We're still at Burbank Airport on a recent Friday…”

A compound of info ‘information’ + age

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- ‘vital force’

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Latin aetātem

Vulgar Latin *aetāticum

Old French eage ‘age’

Middle English age

English age

Today it means

name The Information Age.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / English info / info age