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Translingual
Suffix
-aria
- (taxonomy) Used to form taxonomic names
Derived terms
English
Suffix
-aria
- plural of -arium
Interlingua
Pronunciation
Suffix
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- female equivalent of -ario
References
- Alexander Gode, Hugh E. Blair (1955) Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin -āria, feminine of -ārius. Compare the inherited doublet -aia.
Suffix
-aria f (plural -arie, masculine -ario)
- feminine singular of -ario
Derived terms
Category Italian terms suffixed with -aria not found
See also
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Nominalization of the feminine forms of -ārius. Some nouns in -āria can be interpreted as adjectival modifiers of an implied feminine noun with a more general meaning, such as ferrāria f (“iron-mine”), a type of fodīna f (“mine”). For plant names, the understood noun may be herba f.
Suffix
-āria f (genitive -āriae); first declension
- Used to form feminine counterparts of masculine agent nouns in -ārius.
- metallāria (“female miner”), feminine counterpart to metallārius (“(male) miner”), from metallum (“metal; mine”)
- Used to form abstract nouns, as of offices, from other nouns.
- iūstitiāria (“judgeship; court sessions”), from iūstitia (“justice”)
- Used to form names of plants
- bellonaria (“solanum”); vesicaria (“bladderwort”); moraria (“carline thistle”)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Suffix
-āria
- inflection of -ārius:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Suffix
-āriā
- ablative feminine singular of -ārius
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Suffix
-āria
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of -āris
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin -āria. Doublet of -eira and -eria.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-aria f (noun-forming suffix, plural -arias)
- forms the names of places where the suffixed product is produced or sold, or the suffixed service is provided; -ery
- pizza (“pizza”) + -aria → pizzaria (“pizzeria”)
- forms the names of professions associated with the suffixed word; -ery
- carpinteiro (“carpenter”) + -aria → carpintaria (“carpentry”)
- forms collectives, often with a negative connotation
- grito (“scream”) + -aria → gritaria (“cacophony of screams”)
- forms nouns indicating behaviour typical of the suffixed type of person
- bruxa (“witch”) + -aria → bruxaria (“witchcraft”)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Suffix
-aria
- forms the first-person singular and third-person singular conditional of first-conjugation verbs
- gritar (“to scream”) + -aria → gritaria (“ would scream”)
Etymology 3
Suffix
-aria
- Archaic spelling of -ária.
Derived terms
Spanish
Suffix
-aria
- feminine of -ario