Where does “protozoar” come from?

protozoar (Romanian) comes from French protozoaire, from French -aire, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

protozoar (Romanian): protozoan

Definitions

  1. protozoan

Ancestry of “protozoar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchprotozoaireprotozoan
2French-aire-ary; -aire
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 French -aire →