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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024-ier,2 suffix. - -ier is attached to nouns or roots to form nouns with the meaning "person or thing that does (the action of the word mentioned);
person or thing in charge of (the word mentioned)'':finance + -ier → financier (= person doing finance);cour- (= run) + -ier → courier (= messenger);hotel + -ier → hotelier (= person in charge of hotels).
Compare -er1. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024-ier,1 - var. of -er 1, usually in nouns designating trades:collier; furrier;glazier.
- Latin -ārius -ary (compare soldier)
- Middle English -ier(e), variant of -yer(e) (compare -yer), equivalent. to -i- verb, verbal stem ending + -ere -er1, probably reinforced by Old French -ier
- a noun suffix occurring mainly in loanwords from French, often simply a spelling variant of -eer, with which it is etymologically identical (bombardier;
brigadier;
financier;
grenadier);
it is also found on an older and semantically more diverse group of loanwords that have stress on the initial syllable (barrier;
courier;
courtier;
terrier). Recent loanwords from French may maintain the modern French pronunciation with loss of the final r sound (croupier;
dossier;
hotelier).
- Latin -ārius, -āria, -ārium -ary; compare -aire, -eer, -er2
- French, Old French
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -ier suffix forming nouns - a variant of -eer: brigadier
Etymology: from Old English -ere -er1 or (in some words) from Old French -ier, from Latin -ārius -ary -eer, suffix. - -eer is used to form nouns with the meaning "the person who produces, handles, or is associated with'' the base word:engine + -eer → engineer (= person handling an engine).
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -eer, -ier suffix - (forming nouns) indicating a person who is concerned with or who does something specified: auctioneer, engineer, profiteer, mutineer
- (forming verbs) to be concerned with something specified: electioneer
Etymology: from Old French -ier, from Latin -arius -ary |