-arial

Morpheme

-arial

Type

suffix

Denotation

adjective suffix denoting “of, like, related to, pertaining to” corresponding to -arium, -aria nouns

Etymology

suffixal construction from -arium, -aria + -al(e)

Evidence

aquarial, armamentarial, cercarial, herbarial, insectarial, instrumentarial, metacercarial, pedicellarial, vitellarial

See Also

-arium