-era

-era

1. Used to form names of languages from toponyms.

   ‎Gaztela (“Castille”) + ‎-era → ‎gaztelera (“Spanish language”)

2. Used to form dimension nouns from adjectives.

   ‎sakon (“deep”) + ‎-era → ‎sakonera (“depth”)

3. place

   ‎sartu (“to enter”) + ‎-era → ‎sarrera (“entrance”)

4. Used to a nouns representing the property corresponding to a verb; -tion, -ing

   ‎bukatu (“to end”) + ‎-era → ‎bukaera (“ending”)

5. way of

   ‎izan (“to be”) + ‎-era → ‎izaera (“personality”, literally “way of being”)

From -e- (epenthetic vowel) +‎ -ra (allative suffix).

-era

1. Allomorphic post-consonantal form of -ra (allative inanimate singular suffix)

• “-era” in Labayru Hiztegia

From Latin -aria, feminine form of -arius.

-era f (plural -eres)

1. Used to form nouns meaning the location or object where something is usually found.

   ‎sorra (“sand”) + ‎-era → ‎sorrera (“sandpit, sandbox”)

2. Used to form nouns meaning a plant which is cultivated to produce something.

   ‎oliva (“olive”) + ‎-era → ‎olivera (“olive tree”)

3. Used to form nouns meaning the purpose of something or an object used for that purpose.

   ‎te (“tea”) + ‎-era → ‎tetera (“teapot”)

The equivalent suffix -er can be used to form masculine nouns with these meanings, but usually only the masculine or feminine form will be found in Catalan.

-era (masculine and feminine plural -eres)

1. Used to form nouns and adjectives referring to an inhabitant of somewhere.
2. Used to form nouns and adjectives referring to engaging in a profession.
3. Used to form nouns and adjectives referring to being prone to some activity or characteristic.

Because these senses are used to form adjectives of two forms or nouns referring to animate objects, both the masculine and feminine forms will be found in Catalan, with the lemma entry found at the masculine form.

-era f (plural -eres)

1. Used to form nouns meaning the desire to undertake some task.

Unlike the other senses of this suffix, this meaning is used only to form feminine nouns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈera/

-era

1. female equivalent of -ero

• Alexander Gode; Hugh E. Blair (1955) Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN

-era (present tense -erer, past tense -erte, past participle -ert, passive infinitive -erast, present participle -erande, imperative -er)

1. Alternative form of -ere

From Latin -ārius -ārium, with metathesis of "i" (through a Vulgar Latin form *-airu). Compare Spanish -ero, Portuguese -eiro. Doublet of the suffix Doublet of -aru.

• IPA^(key): /-ɛɾa/

-era f

1. feminine singular of -eru

-era

1. indicates a place or object where something can be found, kept or done

   ‎nguantu (“glove”) + ‎-era → ‎nguantera (“glove compartment”)

   ‎manu (“hand”) + ‎-era → ‎manera (“manner, literaly "the way to use the hands"”)

2. forms names of certain plants or trees from the name of their fruit

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɾa/ [ˈe.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: -e‧ra

-era f (uncountable)

1. indicates a place or object where something can be found, kept or done

   ‎guante (“glove”) + ‎-era → ‎guantera (“glove compartment”)

   ‎regar (“to water”) + ‎-era → ‎regadera (“watering can”)

2. indicates a physical state or disability

   ‎sordo (“deaf”) + ‎-era → ‎sordera (“deafness”)

   ‎borracho (“drunk”) + ‎-era → ‎borrachera (“drunkness”)

3. forms names of certain plants or trees from the name of their fruit

   ‎higo (“fig”) + ‎-era → ‎higuera (“fig tree”)

   ‎mora (“blackberry”) + ‎-era → ‎morera (“blackberry plant”)

-era f

1. feminine singular of -ero

• “-era”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːra/

-era

1. -ate, -ize; make a verb from a noun, similar to Swedish -a; used on loan-words with French -er and German -ieren

• -are, rea

Borrowed from Spanish -era.

• Hyphenation: e‧ra
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔeɾa/, [ˈʔe.ɾɐ]

-era (masculine counterpart -ero)

1. forms female occupations and other agent nouns from nouns

   ‎basura (“trash”) + ‎-era → ‎basurera (“female garbage collector”)

   ‎tinda (“goods for sale”) + ‎-era → ‎tindera (“female vendor”)

   ‎inggit (“envy”) + ‎-era → ‎inggitera (“female envious person”)

   ‎pakialam (“concern”) + ‎-era → ‎pakialamera (“female meddler”)

• Tagalog terms suffixed with -era