-aire

a suffix that forms nouns denoting a person characterized by or occupied with that named by the stem, occurring in loanwords from French:
concessionaire; doctrinaire; legionnaire; millionaire.

Aire

/ ɛə /

noun

a river in N England rising in the Pennines and flowing southeast to the Ouse. Length: 112 km (70 miles)

Origin of -aire¹

< French < Latin -ārius -ary, a learned doublet of the French suffix -ier -eer, -ier ²

Like the corresponding French nouns in -eur, these nouns in -aire, as well as those in -èire, are also used as adjectives.

Two miles further down, on the west side, the Ouse receives another important feeder in the Aire.

The houses look on to a strip of uneven green, cut in two, lengthways, by the Aire.

At the base of the perpendicular face of the cliff the Aire flows from a very slightly arched recess in the rock.

Yaas—day follar de wagon, dey aire leave dar pony-track all roun you.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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