Where does “-alia” come from?

-alia (Interlingua) comes from Latin -ālia, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

-alia (Interlingua): forms nouns from nouns, denoting a worthless collection

Definitions

  1. forms nouns from nouns, denoting a worthless collection

Ancestry of “-alia”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-ālia—
2Latin-ālis—
3Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives
Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis →Every word from Latin -ālis →Every word from Latin -ālia →