-aia

See also: aia, Aia, AIA, aîa, and ăia

Italian

Alternative forms

• (dialectal) -ara

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

Italian terms suffixed with -aia

See also

• -aria