Where does “aper” come from?

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

aper (Latin): a wild boar; a standard of the Roman legions

Definitions

  1. a wild boar; a standard of the Roman legions

Ancestry of “aper”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-āriaused to form feminine counterparts of masculine agent nouns in
2Latin-āriuser
3Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “aper”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Latin -āria →