-arian

a suffix forming personal nouns corresponding to Latin adjectives ending in -ārius or English adjectives or nouns ending in -ary (librarian; proletarian; Rotarian; seminarian; sexagenarian; veterinarian); subsequently productive in English with other Latinate stems, forming nouns denoting a person who supports, advocates, or practices a doctrine, theory, or set of principles associated with the base word: authoritarian; establishmentarian; totalitarian; vegetarian.

Origin of -arian

< Latin -āri(us) or -ary + -an

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British Dictionary definitions for -arian

-arian

suffix forming nouns

indicating a person or thing that advocates, believes, or is associated with somethingvegetarian; millenarian; librarian

Word Origin for -arian

from Latin -ārius -ary + -an

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