Where does “jonquera” come from?

jonquera (Catalan) comes from Catalan -era, from Latin -āria, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

jonquera (Catalan): a bed or stand of rushes

Definitions

  1. a bed or stand of rushes

Ancestry of “jonquera”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Catalan-eraUsed to form nouns meaning the location or object...
2Latin-āriaused to form feminine counterparts of masculine agent nouns in
3Latin-āriuser
4Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Latin -āria →