-aricius

Latin

Etymology

From -ārius +‎ -icius.

Suffix

-āricius (feminine -āricia, neuter -āricium); first/second-declension suffix (Early Medieval Latin)

1. forms adjectives

   ‎vacca + ‎-aricius → ‎vaccāricius

Derived terms

Latin terms suffixed with -aricius

• anguīllāricius
• berbicāricius
• carrūcāricius
• ferrāricius
• hircāricius
• mimāricius
• partiāricius
• plumbāricius
• sigillāricius
• ursāricius

 

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: -ãrets / -ãreatsã
  • Romanian: -ăreț / -ăreață
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: -areccio, -ereccio, -ericcio / -areccia, -ereccia
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: -erez, -eret / -erece
  • Old Occitan: -erez / -ereza
• Ibero-Romance: (with -i- taken from reflexes of -īcius)
  • Galician: -arizo / -ariza
  • Old Spanish: -arizo / -ariza
    • Spanish: -erizo / -eriza
  • Portuguese: -ariço / -ariça

References

• Adams, J. N. (2013) Social Variation and the Latin Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
• Leumann, Manu. 1918. Die Adjektiva auf -ī̆cius. Glotta 9. 139.
• Malkiel, Yakov. 1983. Alternatives to the classic dichotomy family tree/wave theory? The Romance evidence. In Rauch, Irmengard & Carr, Gerald F. (eds.), Language Change, 192–256. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. §4.
• Thomas, Antoine. 1903. Le suffixe -aricius en français et en provençal. Romania 32. 177–203.