-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)

Word History and Origins

Origin of -aire¹

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

Example Sentences

Two people were shot and wounded at a Halloween house party in unincorporated Del Aire near El Segundo, a Sheriff’s Department spokesperson said Saturday.

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Allí mismo, en su habitación de hotel de Oklahoma City, Sasaki comenzó a lanzar en el aire, con el objetivo de recuperar la sensación en la parte inferior de su cuerpo de cuando era considerado el lanzador con más talento que había tenido nunca su país.

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He first gained prominence in the 1980s as the host of The James Whale Radio Show on Radio Aire in Leeds, before hosting a night-time radio show on TalkSport in the late mid-late 90s.

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The James Whale Radio Show had "Radio" in its title because it went out live from Leeds on both Radio Aire and ITV simultaneously at 1am on a Friday night, as people sat at home after coming back from the pub.

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The smooth-voiced Whale, from Surrey, had been presenting on Radio Aire since 1982, after cutting his teeth on stations in Middlesbrough, Derby and Newcastle.

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