Where does “mattoniera” come from?

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

mattoniera (Italian): brick-moulding machine

Definitions

  1. brick-moulding machine

Ancestry of “mattoniera”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italian-ieraAdded to nouns to form other concrete nouns; -er;...
2Latin-āriuser
3Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Italian -iera →