Where does “ferroviário” come from?

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

ferroviário (Portuguese): railway; rail

Definitions

  1. railway; rail

Ancestry of “ferroviário”, step by step

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

Words derived from “ferroviário”

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