-ary

See also: ary, Ary, and ARY

English

Etymology

Back-formation from unary and similar, from Latin adjective suffixes -aris and -arius; compare related -arian, and -adic. Doublet of -eer and -yer.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ə.ɹi/, /.ɹi/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ə.ɹi/, /ɛɹ.i/

Suffix

-ary

Of or pertaining to; adjective suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also.
order, ordinary

Synonyms: -al, -ar, -ese, -ic, -id, -ish, -like, -oid, -ory, -ous, -y
(mathematics) Having the specified arity.
- 1927, A. D. Campbell, “The discriminant of the m-ary quadratic in the Galois fields of order 2ⁿ”, in Annals of Mathematics, Second Series 29:1-4:
- 2007, Philippe Leroux, “A simple symmetry generating operads related to rooted planar m-ary trees and polygonal numbers”, in Journal of Integer Sequences, 10:4:
Synonym: -adic

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -ary

math operation of given arity

Translations

of or pertaining to

Arabic: ـِيّ (ar) (-iyy)
Catalan: -ari (ca)
Galician: -ario (gl) m, -aria f
Hungarian: -árius, -(bel)i, -s, -t/tt
Interlingua: -ari
Portuguese: -ário (pt)

having the specified arity

Finnish: -aarinen
French: -aire (fr)
Galician: -ario (gl) m, -aria f
German: -är (de)
Italian: -ario
Polish: not used in Polish
Portuguese: -ário (pt)
Romanian: -ar (ro)
Swedish: -är (sv)

Anagrams

Ayr, RYA, Ray, ayr, ra'y, ray, rya, yar, γ ray, γ-ray

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