-aia
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)