Where does “microfilaria” come from?

microfilaria (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).

microfilaria (English): The very small larva of a filarial worm

Definitions

  1. The very small larva of a filarial worm

Ancestry of “microfilaria”, 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)

Words derived from “microfilaria”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Latin -āria →