Where does “acinar” come from?

Acinar comes from Latin -arius, from Latin -alis, from Latin -arius, from Proto-Indo-European -yós, a suffix forming adjectives.

acinar (English): Of, pertaining to, or located in an acinus

Definitions

  1. Of, pertaining to, or located in an acinus

Ancestry of “acinar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-arOf, near, or pertaining to; Forming nouns such as...
2Middle English-ar
3Old English-eremasculine agent suffix, originally applied only...
4Proto-West Germanic-ārī-er
5Proto-Germanic-ārijaz-er
6Latin-āriuser
7Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “acinar

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios
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