## Etymology
From spoil + -age; spoil comes from Old French espoillier, from Latin spoliare ('to strip, plunder'), from spolium ('booty, hide stripped from an animal').

## AI Etymology
Spoilage comes from spoil + -age; spoil comes from Old French espoillier, from Latin spoliare ('to strip, plunder'), from spolium ('booty, hide stripped from an animal'). The historical chain includes Latin spoliare and Latin spolium. Older glosses in the chain include "to strip, plunder" and "booty, hide stripped from an animal", which help explain the semantic range of the modern word. Morphologically, spoilage is best read as compound, suffixal formation, and borrowing, yielding an English noun shaped by both form history and later usage. In current English it functions as a noun, with the sense "the process or result of food or goods becoming unfit for use". related forms include spoil, spoiled, and spoilt. The result is an English noun whose etymology preserves the older forms while supporting the word's specialized modern meaning.

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- Cause, Change & Process

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