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ary Ary ARY
English
Etymology
en :inh enm:-arie<ety:der<la:-ārius<id:adjective>>> 1
en enm -arie, a back-formation from en la - and en fr --borrowed adjectives ending respectively in la -ārius and fr -aire (more rarely from Latin adjectives in la -āris: see en exemplary and en lapidary). en -ar<id:occupation> -eer -ier<id:occupation> -yer; see also the related en -arian.
Pronunciation
en /-əɹi/ /-ɹi/ RP
en /-ˌɛɹi/ /-əɹi/ GA
Suffix
Of or pertaining to. Adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to produce an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also.
en -al -ar -ese -ic -id -ish -like -oid -ory -ous -y
en devolution devolutionary
en nonproductive Ending of some substantives borrowed or inherited from Latin and French.
en dictionary, plenipotentiary
en mathematics Having the specified arity.
en -adic
en 1927 A. D. Campbell The discriminant of the m-ary quadratic in the Galois fields of order 2n Annals of Mathematics Second Series 29:1-4
en 2007 Philippe Leroux A simple symmetry generating operads related to rooted planar m-ary trees and polygonal numbers Journal of Integer Sequences 10:4
Derived terms
en
en math operation of given arity nullary unary binary ternary quaternary quinary
Translations
of or pertaining to
Arabic: ar ـِيّ
Catalan: ca -ari
Galician: gl -ario m, gl -aria f
Hungarian: hu -árius, -(bel)i, -s, -t/tt
Interlingua: ia -ari
Italian: it -ario m, it -aria f, it -aio m, it -aia f
Portuguese: pt -ário
having the specified arity
Finnish: fi -aarinen
French: fr -aire
Galician: gl -ario m, gl -aria f
German: de -är
Italian: it -ario m, it -aria f
Polish: pl
Portuguese: pt -ário
Romanian: ro -ar
Swedish: sv -är
See also
Appendix:English arities and adicities
Anagrams
en ary Ayr RYA Ray ayr ra'y ray rya yar γ ray γ-ray