DictionaryRoot: -erie
French
-erie
an activity, place, or collection
Forms
- -erie
- -ery — The usual English spelling of the borrowed ending.
Origin
Old French formations combining -ier or -er with -ie, ultimately drawing on Latin -arius and -ia.
Note
An activity and the place where it happens can receive names from the same ending.
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noun / adjective
rotisserie
roh-TIS-uh-ree/rəʊˈtɪsəri/
Equipment that turns food on a spit during cooking.
Etymology
The roasting verb rôtir underlies a name originally used for a shop or restaurant selling roasted food. The name later shifted from the place to the apparatus that roasts on a spit.