-ari
Catalan
Suffix
-ari m (feminine -ària, masculine plural -aris, feminine plural -àries)
- forms adjectives, from nouns, meaning “of or related to the suffixed nouns”
- revolució (“revolution”) + -ari → revolucionari (“revolutionary”)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “-ari” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “-ari” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
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)
Declension
Declension of -ari | ||||
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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
- átari
- flekjari
- klokkari
- skrivar
Finnish
Derived terms
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)
Derived terms
- kallari
- togari
Italian
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈaː.riː/
Old High German
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Suffix
-āri
- used to form agent nouns
- from nouns: buoch (“book”) + -āri → buochāri (“scholar”)
- from verbs: hëlfan (“to help”) + -āri → hëlfāri (“helper”)
Derived terms
Descendants
- German: -er
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *warjaz.
Suffix
-āri
- used to form demonyms
- Baiāri (“Bavarian”)
- Romāri (“Roman”)
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
- a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as skytari (“shooter, bowman”), from skjóta (“to shoot”)
Descendants
References
- Olav Næs, Norsk Grammatikk — Ordlære, 1952; p. 246
Old Saxon
Suffix
-āri
- forming masculine agent nouns from verbs
- forming masculine agent nouns from other nouns.
Declension
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch, (5. Auflage) 2014