Where does “păpușărie” come from?

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

păpușărie (Romanian): puppeteer show

Definitions

  1. puppeteer show

Ancestry of “păpușărie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanian-ărie-ery
2Latin-āriaused to form feminine counterparts of masculine agent nouns in
3Latin-āriuser
4Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Latin -āria →