Where does “clonțar” come from?

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

clonțar (Romanian): hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)

Definitions

  1. hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)

Ancestry of “clonțar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanian-ar-er
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 Romanian -ar →