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-aire

  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.



Aire

/ ɛə /

noun

  1. a river in N England rising in the Pennines and flowing southeast to the Ouse. Length: 112 km (70 miles)
“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 -aire1

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

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.

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