Where does “-era” come from?

-era (Tagalog) comes from Spanish -era, from Latin -āria, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

-era (Tagalog): forms female occupations and other agent nouns from nouns

Definitions

  1. forms female occupations and other agent nouns from nouns

Ancestry of “-era”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanish-erafeminine singular of -ero; indicates a place or...
2Latin-āriaused to form feminine counterparts of masculine agent nouns in
3Latin-āriuser
4Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “-era”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →