Where does “alfandegário” come from?

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

alfandegário (Portuguese): customs government department

Definitions

  1. customs government department

Ancestry of “alfandegário”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguese-árioforms adjectives, from nouns, meaning “of or...
2Latin-āriuser
3Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Portuguese -ário →