Where does “filariasis” come from?

filariasis (English) comes from English filaria, from Translingual Filaria, from Translingual -aria, from Latin -āria, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

filariasis (English): Any disease common in tropical and subtropical...

Definitions

  1. Any disease common in tropical and subtropical...

Ancestry of “filariasis”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfilariaAny of the parasitic nematode worms of...
2TranslingualFilariagenus
3Translingual-ariaone like
4Latin-āriaused to form feminine counterparts of masculine agent nouns in
5Latin-āriuser
6Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →