Definitions
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- suffix A
believer in something. - suffix An
advocate of something. - suffix uncommon A
native orinhabitant of somewhere.
Etymologies
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A 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. -ary + -an
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