Where does “-ário” come from?

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

-ário (Portuguese): forms adjectives, from nouns, meaning “of or...

Definitions

  1. forms adjectives, from nouns, meaning “of or...

Ancestry of “-ário”, step by step

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

Words derived from “-ário”

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