Where does “paramilitar” come from?

paramilitar (Galician) comes from Galician militar, from Latin mīlitāris, from Latin -āris, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

paramilitar (Galician): paramilitary

Definitions

  1. paramilitary

Ancestry of “paramilitar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianmilitarmilitary; soldier; to participate in a political...
2LatinmīlitārisOf a soldier: soldierly; or of the military: martial
3Latin-ārisfirst conjugation
4Latin-ālis
5Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives
Every word from Proto-Italic -ālisEvery word from Latin -ālisEvery word from Latin -āris
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