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-ary

suffix
/ə.ɹi/UK/ə.ɹi/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary Inherited from Middle English -arie, a back-formation from Latin and French-borrowed adjectives ending respectively in -ārius and -aire (more rarely from Latin adjectives in -āris: see exemplary and lapidary). Doublet of -ar, -eer, -ier, and -yer; see also the related -arian.

  1. inherited from -arie

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to. Adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to produce…

    Of or pertaining to. Adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to produce an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also.

    • devolution + -ary → devolutionary

  2. Ending of some substantives borrowed or inherited from Latin and French.

    • dictionary, plenipotentiary

  3. Having the specified arity.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ary. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA