-ary
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Back-formation from unary and similar, from Latin adjective suffixes -aris and -arius; compare related -arian, and -adic. Doublet of -eer and -yer.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ə.ɹi/, /.ɹi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ə.ɹi/, /ɛɹ.i/
Suffix[edit]
-ary
- Of or pertaining to; adjective suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also.
- (mathematics) Having the specified arity.
- 1927, A. D. Campbell, “The discriminant of the m-ary quadratic in the Galois fields of order 2n”, in Annals of Mathematics, Second Series 29:1-4:
- 2007, Philippe Leroux, “A simple symmetry generating operads related to rooted planar m-ary trees and polygonal numbers”, in Journal of Integer Sequences, 10:4:
- Synonym: -adic
Derived terms[edit]
math operation of given arity
Translations[edit]
of or pertaining to
having the specified arity