-aia
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin -āria, feminine of -ārius. Compare the doublet -aria. Example: Italian operaia, from Latin operāria.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-aia f (noun-forming suffix, plural -aie, masculine -aio)
- forms feminine agent nouns from verbs
- astuccio (“box, carton”) + -aia → astucciaia (“female who makes or sells boxes or cartons”)
- asola (“buttonhole (hole for a button)”) + -aia → asolaia (“female who makes buttonholes”)
- burattino (“pullet”) + -aia → burattinaia (“female puppeteer, female puppet master”)
- added to nouns to form collective nouns, meaning a place in which to find a great quantity of the named object
Derived terms
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-aia f (non-lemma form of adjective-forming suffix)
See also
[edit]Categories:
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/aja
- Rhymes:Italian/aja/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian suffixes
- Italian noun-forming suffixes
- Italian countable suffixes
- Italian feminine suffixes
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian suffix forms