-arian

短语

suf. [构成形容词或名词]表示：...岁的(人)：octogenarian, centenarian; ...派的(人);...主义的(人)：Unitarian,utilitarian; 从事...工作(或职业)的(人)：argarian,antiquarian; 制定(或做出)...的(人)：disciplinarian

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    A believer in something.

  2. 2.

    An advocate of something.

  3. 3.

    A native or inhabitant of somewhere.

  4. 1.

    Used to form an adjective meaning "of or pertaining to" from nouns ending in -arium.

    aquarium + -arian → aquarian (“of or pertaining to aquariums”)

    planaria + -arian → planarian (“of or pertaining to planaria”)

    vitellarium + -arian → vitellarian (“of or pertaining to vitellaria”)

词源

Back-formation from various words ending in “arian”, some directly derived from Classical or Medieval Latin words ending in -arius by adding -an to the stem, other indirectly via Old French words ending in "arien(ne)" or "erien(ne)" or from English words ending in “ary” to which -an was suffixed; note the same phenomenon in -ary. Equivalent to -ary + -an.

来源：wiktionary