Where does “immunodéficitaire” come from?

immunodéficitaire (French) comes from French déficitaire, from French -aire, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

immunodéficitaire (French): immunodeficient

Definitions

  1. immunodeficient

Ancestry of “immunodéficitaire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchdéficitaireloss-making, in the red
2French-aire-ary; -aire
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 French -aire →