Where does “militar” come from?

militar (Maltese) comes from Italian militare, from Latin mīlitāris, from Latin -āris, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

militar (Maltese): military

Definitions

  1. military

Ancestry of “militar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmilitaremilitary; army; serviceman
2LatinmīlitārisOf a soldier: soldierly; or of the military: martial
3Latin-ārisfirst conjugation
4Latin-ālis—
5Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives
Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis →Every word from Latin -ālis →Every word from Latin -āris →