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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

-ary en · X

Pronunciation

  • /ə.ɹi/ (General-American)
  • /ɛɹ.i/ (General-American)
  • /ɹi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ə.ɹi/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios 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.

Meanings

  1. (morpheme) 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. (morpheme) Ending of some substantives borrowed or inherited from Latin and French.
    • dictionary, plenipotentiary
  3. (morpheme) Having the specified arity.

Deriveds

quinary (math operation of given arity) · binary (math operation of given arity) · nullary (math operation of given arity) · quaternary (math operation of given arity) · ternary (math operation of given arity) · unary (math operation of given arity)

Synonyms

-adic · -y · -ar · -ory · -ic · -oid · -ese · -al · -ous · -id · -ish · -like

Translations (21)

sv -är (having the specified arity) · pt -ário (having the specified arity) · it -aia (of or pertaining to) · ca -ari (of or pertaining to) · pt -ário (of or pertaining to) · ar ـِيّ (of or pertaining to) · ro -ar (having the specified arity) · it -aio (of or pertaining to) · it -ario (having the specified arity) · it -aria (having the specified arity) · gl -aria (having the specified arity) · ia -ari (of or pertaining to) · hu -árius, -(bel)i, -s, -t/tt (of or pertaining to) · fr -aire (having the specified arity) · de -är (having the specified arity) · gl -ario (having the specified arity) · gl -ario (of or pertaining to) · fi -aarinen (having the specified arity) · gl -aria (of or pertaining to) · it -ario (of or pertaining to) · it -aria (of or pertaining to)