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Where does “-ial” come from?

-ial (English) comes from Middle English -ial.

-ial (English): Forms an adjective from a noun

Definitions

  1. Forms an adjective from a noun

Ancestry of “-ial”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle English-ial—

Words derived from “-ial”

  • financial
  • commercial
  • presidential
  • editorial
  • managerial
  • financially
  • entrepreneurial
  • commercially
  • experiential
  • referential
  • bronchial
  • tangential
  • commercialization
  • inferential
  • authorial
  • dictatorial
  • misnomer
  • noncommercial
  • commercialism
  • torrential
  • inquisitorial
  • prosecutorial
  • nonfinancial
  • vestigial
Every word from Middle English -ial →