-arius

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aː.ri.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.ri.us] === Etymology 1 === From earlier Proto-Italic *-āsios (cf. Oscan sakrasias and Umbrian plenasier), formed from *-āso- (from PIE *-eh₂so-, cf. the Hittite appurtenance suffix -ašša-), extended with the relational adjectival suffix *-yós (“belonging to”). ==== Suffix ==== -ārius (feminine -āria, neuter -ārium); first/second-declension suffix Used to form adjectives from nouns or numerals. ‎camera (“vault, arch”) + ‎-ārius → ‎camerārius (“climbing, creeping”) ‎ordō (“line, row”) + ‎-ārius → ‎ordinārius (“ordinary, of the rank and file”) ‎quaternī (“four at a time, by fours”) + ‎-ārius → ‎quaternārius (“quaternary”) ===== Usage notes ===== The nominative neuter form -ārium, when appended to nouns, forms derivative nouns denoting a “place where things are kept”. ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → French: -aire m or f by sense → Italian: -ario m → Proto-Brythonic: *-ọr Middle Welsh: -awr Welsh: -or m → Old Irish: -óir Irish: -óir Scottish Gaelic: -air ==== References ==== === Etymology 2 === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Suffix ==== -ārius m (genitive -āriī or -ārī); second declension (masculine only) -er; Used to form nouns denoting an agent of use, such as a dealer or artisan, from other nouns. ‎argentum (“silver”) + ‎-ārius → ‎argentārius (“banker”) ‎avicula (“little bird”) + ‎-ārius → ‎aviculārius (“bird keeper”) ‎rēte (“net”) + ‎-ārius → ‎rētiārius (“net fighter”) ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Eastern Romance: Aromanian: -ar m, -aru, -ariu Romanian: -ar m, -ariu m Italo-Dalmatian: Corsican: -aghju Italian: -aio Sicilian: -aru Western Romance: Old French: -ierMiddle French: -erFrench: -ier, -er→ English: -eer, -er→ Middle English: -er, -eer, -ere, -ier, -ir, -yrEnglish: -er (conflated with -ere)Middle Scots: -er, -arScots: -er (conflated with -ere)→ Italian: -iere→ Romanian: -ier→ Old Irish: -aireIrish: -aireScottish Gaelic: -air→ Sicilian: -eri Old Occitan: -ier Catalan: -er, -era Occitan: -ièr Sicilian: -eri, -era Rhaeto-Romance: Friulian: -âr Venetan: -aro, -ar, -er West Iberian: Old Leonese: -eyro, -ero Asturian: -eru Old Galician-Portuguese: -eiro, -ejro, -eyroFala: -eiruGalician: -eiroPortuguese: -eiroMacanese: -êro Old Spanish: -ero Spanish: -ero → Albanian: -ar → Asturian: -ariu → Catalan: -ari → English: -ary, -arian → German: -är → Galician: -ario → German: -ar → Greek: -άρης (-áris) → Occitan: -ari → Polish: -ariusz → Portuguese: -ário → Proto-Germanic: *-ārijaz (see there for further descendants) Gothic: -𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (-āreis) → Proto-Slavic: *-ařь (see there for further descendants) → Sicilian: -àriu → Spanish: -ario → Basque: -ari