| -ia | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| 1. | occurring in place names: Albania; Columbia |
| 2. | occurring in names of diseases and pathological disorders: pneumonia; aphasia |
| 3. | occurring in words denoting condition or quality: utopia |
| 4. | occurring in names of botanical genera: acacia; poinsettia |
| 5. | occurring in names of zoological classes: Reptilia |
| 6. | occurring in collective nouns borrowed from Latin: marginalia; memorabilia; regalia |
| [(for senses 1--4) New Latin, from Latin and Greek, suffix of feminine nouns; (for senses 5--6) from Latin, neuter plural suffix] | |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
-ia 1
suff.
Disease; pathological or abnormal condition: anoxia.