Italian

Suffix

-izia

1. Used to form female abstract nouns derived from adjectives, that correspond to English words ending in -ship or -ness, like furbizia ‎(“cleverness”), from furbo ‎(“sly”) or pigrizia ‎(“lazyness”), from pigro ‎(“lazy”)

Derived terms

References

1. ↑ “-izia” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2

Etymology 2

Suffix

-izia

1. feminine singular of -izio