-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.

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Origin of -aire

< French < Latin -ārius -ary, a learned doublet of the French suffix -ier -eer, -ier2

Words nearby -aire

-age, -agog, -agogue, -agra, -aholic, -aire, -al, -ales, -algia, -algy, -alis
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