Where does “molekylær” come from?

molekylær (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from French moléculaire, from French -aire, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

molekylær (Norwegian Bokmål): molecular

Definitions

  1. molecular

Ancestry of “molekylær”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmoléculairemolecular
2French-aire-ary; -aire
3Latin-āriuser
4Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from French -aire →