-arian
a suffix forming personal nouns corresponding to latin adjectives ending in -ārius or english adjectives or nouns ending in -ary, (librarian; proletarian; rotarian; seminarian; s-xagenarian; 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 -ssociated with the base word: authoritarian; establishmentarian; totalitarian; vegetarian .
-arian
suffix
indicating a person or thing that advocates, believes, or is -ssociated with something vegetarian, millenarian, librarian
word origin
from latin -ārius-ary + -an
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