-ary

(Latin: a suffix; a person who, a place where, a thing which, or pertaining to; connected with; having the character of; apparatus)

The following examples of this suffix represent a very small number of those that exist in other parts of this lexicon.


translunary
Beyond the moon; spiritual.
trinary
1. Threefold; triple; ternary.
2. Consisting of three parts or proceeding by threes.
undecennary
unitary
1. Of or pertaining to, characterized by, based upon, or directed towards, unity.
2. Of the nature of a unit; having the separate existence or individual character of a unit.
urinary
usufructuary
1. Someone who is entitled by usufruct to the use of another person's property.
2. Of or relating to the nature of a usufruct.
3. Someone who holds property by usufruct.
vaccary
A small-scale commercial cattle farm with a dairy and cow pasture.

The word is usually linked to grazing land in the moors and valleys of the Pennines in Yorkshire and Lancashire, England.

vagary
valetudinary
Of, pertaining to, or typical of a valetudinarian.
vary
venomosalivary
1. Secreting saliva with venom in it.
2. Of or pertaining to, secreting or conveying, venomous saliva.
vespiary
veterinary
1. Of or pertaining to, connected or concerned with, the medical or surgical treatment of cattle and domestic animals.
2. Etymology: from Latin veterinarius, "pertaining to beasts of burden or draft animals"; as in plowing or pulling; especially, veterina, "a draft animal", from vetus, "old" (veter-, stem of vetus, "old"); originally "one year old".

Veterina bestia probably means "an animal one year old"; hence, strong enough to draw burdens (1729-1797).

vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous
Marked by, full of, or subject to changes or variations.
visionary

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