indicating a person or thing that advocates, believes, or is associated with something
⇒vegetarian
⇒millenarian
⇒librarian
Origin
from Latin -ārius-ary + -an
-arian
Word Origin
1
a suffix forming personal nouns corresponding to Latin adjectives ending in -ārius or English adjectives or nouns ending in -ary, (librarian; proletarian; Rotarian; seminarian; sexagenarian; veterinarian); subsequently productive in English with other Latinate stems, forming nouns denoting a person who supports, advocates, or practices a doctrine, theory, or set of principles associated with the base word: authoritarian; establishmentarian; totalitarian; vegetarian.
Origin
< Latin-āri(us) or -ary + -an
Related Words
antidisestablishmentarian
antidisestablishmentarianism
attitudinarian
Catilinarian
communitarian
contrarian
-ariana compound suffix of adjectives and nouns, often referring to pursuits, doctrines, etc., or to age, as in antiquarian, humanitarian, octogenarian.
(forming adjectives and corresponding nouns) having a concern or belief in a specified thing
［构成形容词和相应名词］表示“对…关注的”; “信仰…的”：
humanitarian
vegetarian.
词源
from the Latin suffix -arius.
-arian|ˈɛərɪən|suffix, based on L. -ārius -ary1 with the addition of -an, used to form adjs. or corresponding ns. The earliest formations of a general character are disciplinarian (n.) of the late 16th century, agrarian, antiquarian (n.), corpuscularian, proletarian, and veterinarian (n.) of the 17th century; of the numeral adjs.quinquagenarian (1569) and septuagenarian (1715) are the earliest recorded. The commonest use of the suffix is in terms denoting religious or moral tenets, as Millenarian, Predestinarian, sectarian, Sublapsarian, Supralapsarian, Trinitarian, Unitarian of the 17th century, Tractarian (1824), on the analogy of which were formed humanitarian, necessitarian, utilitarian, the jocular anythingarian and nothingarian of the 18th century, and the nonce-word strictarian (after sectarian).1838Southey Devil's Walk in Poet.Wks. III. 94 My Utilitarians, My all sorts of -inians And all sorts of -arians My all sorts of -ists.1867F. H. Ludlow Little Brother 125 I believe there are strictarians who think it too gay.
-arian
believer, advocate, producer:
agrarian, barbarian
-arian/ˈɛ:rɪən/suffix.
ORIGIN: from Latin-arius-ary1 + -an.
Forming adjectives or corresp. nouns of which the earliest are disciplinarian, antiquarian, proletarian; (numeral adjectives) quinquagenarian; commonly in terms denoting religious or moral tenets, as Millenarian, sectarian, Unitarian, on the analogy of which were formed humanitarian, utilitarian, etc., and joc. formations as anythingarian.
Back-formation from various words ending in “arian”, some directly derived from Classical or Medieval Latin words ending in -arius by adding -an to the stem, other indirectly via Old French words ending in "arien(ne)" or "erien(ne)" or from English words ending in “ary” to which -an was suffixed; note the same phenomenon in -ary. Equivalent to -ary + -an.
Usage notes
Most English words ending in "arian" are not derived in English using this suffix. Most often -an or -ian is added to words formed in Latin using -arius or to a stem ending in "ar". For examples, see barbarian, nonagenarian, Rastafarian, Hungarian, and Trinitarian.
Derived terms
► English words suffixed with -arian
See also
Category:English words suffixed with -ian
Category:English words suffixed with -an
后缀：-arian [名词后缀]
1、表示人
parliamentarian 国会议员
attitudinarian 装模作样者
unitarian 拥护政治统一的人
alphabetarian 学字母的人
antiquarian 古物家
fruitarian 主要靠吃水果过日子的人
abecedarian 教或学a,b,c,d的人，初学者，启蒙老师
sectarian 宗派门徒
2、带此后缀的名词有的可兼作形容词，表示...的、...主义的
humanitarian 人道主义者，人道主义的
doctrinarian 教条主义者，教条主义的
equalitarian 平均主义者，平均主义的
vegetarian 素食者，素食的
establishmentarian 拥护即成权力机构的（人）
utilitarian 功利主义者，功利主义的
词根词缀：-arian
【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix forming adjectives from nouns ending in -ary; a person who, a thing that; a person who is a part of something, pertaining to one's state or condition; a person who has a connection with or belief in the stated subject; an advocate of something; a native or inhabitant of someplace; someone of a certain age