Where does “petrary” come from?

petrary (English) comes from Latin petraria, from Latin -āria, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

petrary (English): A weapon used to hurl stones

Definitions

  1. A weapon used to hurl stones

Ancestry of “petrary”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpetraria—
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 →