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-arial

-arial suffix: used to form an adjective meaning "of or pertaining to" from nouns ending in -arium.

Suffix

-arial

  1. Used to form an adjective meaning "of or pertaining to" from nouns ending in -arium.
    • aquarium + -arial → aquarial (“of or pertaining to aquariums”)
    • herbarium + -arial → herbarial (“of or pertaining to herbaria”)

Origin of -arial

By surface analysis, -ari(um) + -al.

Questions about -arial

What does -arial mean?
-arial means used to form an adjective meaning "of or pertaining to" from nouns ending in -arium.
What part of speech is -arial?
-arial is a suffix.

Words near -arial in the dictionary

  1. -arch
  2. -arche
  3. -archy
  4. -ard
  5. -aria
  6. -arial
  7. -arian
  8. -aric
  9. -arism
  10. -arist
  11. -arium

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