Where does “-aire” come from?

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

Ancestry of “-aire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-āriuser
2Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “-aire

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios
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