Where does “bestiari” come from?
bestiari (Catalan) comes from Latin bēstiārius, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).
bestiari (Catalan): bestiary (a medieval treatise of animals)
Definitions
- bestiary (a medieval treatise of animals)
Ancestry of “bestiari”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | bēstiārius | one who fights with wild beasts in the public spectacles, a beast-fighter |
| 2 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |