-ari

See also: ARI, Ari, ari, arı, arī, Ári, ári, arí, àrì, -arí, and -äri

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin -ārius. Doublet of -er.

Suffix

-ari m (feminine -ària, masculine plural -aris, feminine plural -àries)

  1. forms adjectives, from nouns, meaning “of or related to the suffixed nouns”
    revolució (revolution) + -arirevolucionari (revolutionary)

Derived terms

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Further reading


Faroese

Etymology

From the Old Norse -ari (suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs), from Middle Low German [Term?], from Latin -ārius.

Suffix

-ari m (genitive singular -ara, plural -arar)

  1. -er, -or; (a masculine suffix used to form agent nouns from verb and noun stems)
    at baka (to bake) + -aribakari (a baker).

Declension

Declension of -ari
m1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative -ari -arin -arar -ararnir
accusative -ara -aran -arar -ararnar
dative -ara -aranum -arum -arunum
genitive -ara -arans -ara -aranna

Derived terms

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  • átari
  • flekjari
  • klokkari
  • skrivar

Finnish

Suffix

-ari (front vowel harmony variant -äri)

  1. Variant of -ri; forms agent nouns.

Derived terms

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Icelandic

Etymology

From the Old Norse -ari (suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs). This suffix is not Germanic, ultimately deriving from Latin -ārius through borrowings, and lives on in different guises in the Germanic languages, e.g., in the German -er, used for the same purpose.

Suffix

-ari m (genitive singular -ara, plural -arar)

  1. -er, -or; (a masculine suffix used to form agent nouns from verb and noun stems)
    leika (to act) + -arileikari (an actor).

Derived terms

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  • kallari
  • togari

Italian

Suffix

-ari m or f

  1. plural of -are

Suffix

-ari m

  1. masculine plural of -aro

Suffix

-ari m

  1. masculine plural of -ario

Latin

Pronunciation

Suffix

-ārī

  1. dative masculine singular of -āris
  2. dative feminine singular of -āris
  3. dative neuter singular of -āris
  4. ablative masculine singular of -āris
  5. ablative neuter singular of -āris
  6. ablative feminine singular of -āris
  7. present passive infinitive of

Old High German

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Suffix

-āri

  1. used to form agent nouns
    from nouns: buoch (book) + -āribuochāri (scholar)
    from verbs: hëlfan (to help) + -ārihëlfāri (helper)
Derived terms
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Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *warjaz.

Suffix

-āri

  1. used to form demonyms
    Baiāri (Bavarian)
    Romāri (Roman)
Descendants

Old Norse

Etymology

Borrowed as part of Medieval Latin and Middle Low German words. In both cases, it stems from Latin -ārius. The suffix -ari replaced the native suffix -i which was used for agent nouns before: skytari (shooter, bowman) instead of skyti (shooter, bowman), both derived from skjóta (to shoot).[1]

Suffix

-ari m

  1. a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as skytari (shooter, bowman), from skjóta (to shoot)

Descendants

References

  1. Olav Næs, Norsk Grammatikk Ordlære, 1952; p. 246

Old Saxon

Suffix

-āri

  1. forming masculine agent nouns from verbs
  2. forming masculine agent nouns from other nouns.

Declension


References

  1. Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch, (5. Auflage) 2014

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin -ārium, -ārius.

Suffix

-ari

  1. -ary (nominal suffix)
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