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  • -ary becomes -aire

    Many English adjectives and nouns ending in “-ary” have a close match in French, with the ending -aire instead. “Necessary” becomes nĂ©cessaire, “ordinary” becomes ordinaire, and “military” becomes militaire. As with other pairs of this kind, both endings come from the same source, the Latin ending -arius, -aria or -arium, rather than French borrowing directly…