Where does “tonsillaire” come from?

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

tonsillaire (French): tonsillar

Definitions

  1. tonsillar

Ancestry of “tonsillaire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1French-aire-ary; -aire
2Latin-āriuser
3Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →