-aia
See also: aia, Aia, AIA, aîa, and ăia
Italian
Alternative forms
- -ara (dialectal)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin -āria, feminine of -ārius. Compare the doublet -aria.Example: Italian operaia, from Latin operāria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈa.ja/
- Rhymes: -aja
- Hyphenation: -à‧ia
Suffix
-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
- fungo (“mushroom”) + -aia → fungaia (“mushroom bed”)
- riso (“rice”) + -aia → risaia (“paddy field”)
- ghiaccio (“ice”) + -aia → ghiacciaia (“icebox”)
Derived terms
Italian terms suffixed with -aia
Suffix
-aia f (non-lemma form of adjective-forming suffix)
- feminine singular of -aio
See also
- -aria