Where does “notário” come from?
notário (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese notario, from Latin notarius, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.
notário (Portuguese): notary; registrar
Ancestry of “notário”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | notario | — |
| 2 | Latin | notarius | notary; clerk, secretary; writer of shorthand;... |
| 3 | Latin | -ārius | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | — |