Where does “gràpiri” come from?

gràpiri (Sicilian) comes from Esperanto apro, from Latin aper, from Latin -āria, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

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Ancestry of “gràpiri”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantoaprowild boar
2Latinapera wild boar; a standard of the Roman legions
3Latin-āriaused to form feminine counterparts of masculine agent nouns in
4Latin-āriuser
5Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āziosEvery word from Latin -āriusEvery word from Latin -āria
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