-aia

See also: aia, Aia, AIA, aîa, and ăia

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin -āria, feminine of -ārius. Compare the doublet -aria. Example: Italian operaia, from Latin operāria.

Suffix

-aia f (plural -aie, masculine -aio)

  1. A suffix used to form agent nouns.

-aia f

  1. Used to form words, derived from nouns, meaning a great quantity of the named object.
  2. Used to form words, derived from nouns, meaning a place or (more rarely) an animal associated with the specified object.

Derived terms
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See also
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