Where does “caciaia” come from?

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

caciaia (Italian): a room where cheese is left to mature

Definitions

  1. a room where cheese is left to mature

Ancestry of “caciaia”, step by step

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