Where does “popolari” come from?

popolari (Maltese) comes from Italian popolare, from Latin populāris, from Latin -āris, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

popolari (Maltese): popular

Definitions

  1. popular

Ancestry of “popolari”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianpopolareof the people, people's, popular; folk,...
2Latinpopulārispopular (by, of or for the people)
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 →
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