-easă

See also: easa

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin -issa, from Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa). Cf. also the doublet -esă, a neologism borrowed from French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈe̯a.sə/

Suffix

-easă f (plural -ese)

1. Used to make feminine forms of some masculine nouns, or to indicate the wife of a man with a certain profession; -ess

   Synonym: -iță

Declension

Declension of -easă

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) -easă	-easa	(niște) -ese	-esele
genitive/dative	(unei) -ese	-esei	(unor) -ese	-eselor
vocative	-easă, -easo		-eselor

Derived terms

Romanian terms suffixed with -easă

• cărturăreasă
• măcelăreasă
• negustoreasă
• perucăreasă
• rotăreasă

 

See also

• -oaică
• -ar