LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
suffix · femininefirst declension

-āria

-āria f (genitive -āriae)
Classical[aː.ri.a]Ecclesiastical[a.ri.a]

Meaning

  1. morphemeused to form feminine counterparts of masculine agent nouns in -ārius
    metallāria (“female miner”), feminine counterpart to metallārius (“(male) miner”), from metallum (“metal; mine”)
  2. morphemeused to form abstract nouns, as of offices, from other nouns
    iūstitiāria (“judgeship; court sessions”), from iūstitia (“justice”)
  3. morphemeused to form names of plants
    bellonaria (“solanum”); vesicaria (“bladderwort”); moraria (“carline thistle”)

Origins

Nominalization of the feminine forms of -ārius. Some nouns in -āria can be interpreted as adjectival modifiers of an implied feminine noun with a more general meaning, such as ferrāria f (“iron-mine”), a type of fodīna f (“mine”). For plant names, the understood noun may be herba f.

Quick answers

What does -āria mean in Latin?
-āria, a suffix, means “used to form feminine counterparts of masculine agent nouns in -ārius; used to form abstract nouns, as of offices, from other nouns; used to form names of plants”.
How do you pronounce -āria?
In classical Latin, [aː.ri.a]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [a.ri.a].