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• -aire
  -aire

  a suffix that forms nouns denoting a person characterized by or occupied with that named by the stem, occurring in loanwords from French.
• Aire
  Aire

  noun

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

-aire

American  

1. 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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Aire British  

/ ɛə /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of -aire

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