Where does “bambinaio” come from?

bambinaio (Italian) comes from Italian bambinaia, from Italian -aia, from Latin -āria, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

bambinaio (Italian): A man who looks after children

Definitions

  1. A man who looks after children

Ancestry of “bambinaio”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianbambinaianursemaid; nanny
2Italian-aiaA suffix used to form agent nouns; Added to nouns...
3Latin-āriaused to form feminine counterparts of masculine agent nouns in
4Latin-āriuser
5Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Latin -āria →