Where does “-acchiare” come from?

-acchiare (Italian) comes from Italian -are, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

-acchiare (Italian): Used with verbs to derive verbs with attenuative,...

Definitions

  1. Used with verbs to derive verbs with attenuative,...

Ancestry of “-acchiare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italian-areUsed, with a stem, to form the infinitive of most...
2Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
3Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots

Words derived from “-acchiare”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Italian -are →