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-aris

  1. a suffix occurring in scientific terms:

    Polaris.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of -aris1

< Latin -āris; -ar 1

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Example Sentences

Ruiz and Aris Maldonado, an alleged accomplice, were arrested on Tuesday.

He entered into it because, he said, former differences should be forgotten when the struggle was pro aris et focis.

Rasdorfer evidently alludes to what Pliny says of a kind of vine termed Aspendios: E diverso aspendios, damnata aris.

Hannibal, Hamilcaris filius, novem annos natus, a patre aris admotus odium in Romanos perenne iuravit.

This was I think in the mind of Cicero when he said "in aris et focis est Republica."

Ab'aris, to whom Apollo gave a golden arrow, on which to ride through the air.

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