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-ier

1
  1. variant of -er 1, usually in nouns designating trades:

    collier; clothier; furrier; glazier.



-ier

2
  1. a noun suffix occurring mainly in loanwords from French, often simply a spelling variant of -eer, with which it is etymologically identical ( bombardier; brigadier; financier; grenadier ); it is also found on an older and semantically more diverse group of loanwords that have stress on the initial syllable ( barrier; courier; courtier; terrier ). Recent loanwords from French may maintain the modern French pronunciation with loss of the final r sound ( croupier; dossier; hotelier ).

-ier

suffix forming nouns

  1. a variant of -eer

    brigadier

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ier1

Middle English -ier ( e ), variant of -yer ( e ) ( -yer ), equivalent to -i- v. stem ending + -ere -er 1, probably reinforced by Old French -ier < Latin -ārius -ary ( soldier )

Origin of -ier2

< French, Old French < Latin -ārius, -āria, -ārium -ary; -aire, -eer, -er 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ier1

from Old English -ere -er 1or (in some words) from Old French -ier, from Latin -ārius -ary
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Example Sentences

A crude label, written in red crayon and held on with tape, read , “Friedrich Wilhelm Ier, der Soldaten König.”

The chef of the customhouse, esteeming the old sol'iers so highly, is an old sol'ier himself,—is it not so?

Ier had the place for some time,rather a bore to keep up,wants quite an army of servants.

Histoire de la Suède pendant la vie et sous la règne de Gustave Ier.

It shows no marked archaisms of form, unless the infinitive in -ier is to be accounted as such.

He died af-ter a long sick-ness at his home in Mont-pel-ier on June 28th, 1836.

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