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Adjectival

Adjective, a part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun


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Abruzzese

Abruzzo region of Italy: Abruzzese is the associated adjective

Adjectival

Adjectival noun or sometimes "adjectival", a noun that functions as an adjective, especially in Japanese grammar

Almalyk

Almalyk, Almalıq, Almalik, or Almaliq is a Turkic adjective form of "apple".

Americana

In some Romance languages (including Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan and Italian), Americana is the feminine noun or adjective referring to women or objects from the American Continent declined in the feminine gender.

Aramaic of Hatra

A weakening of the laryngeal ‘ayn; in one inscription, the masculine singular demonstrative adjective is written ‘dyn (‘dyn ktb’ "this inscription") which corresponds to Mandaic and Babylonian Talmudic Aramaic hādēn.

Barenaked

Barenaked Ladies, Canadian rock band which sometimes uses the adjective in associated projects such as Barenaked for the Holidays

Bavarian

Bavarian is the adjective form of the German state of Bavaria, and refers to people of ancestry from Bavaria.

Bipartisanship

The adjective bipartisan can refer to any bill, act, resolution, or other political act in which both of the two major political parties agree about all or many parts of a political choice.

Bryotropha gemella

The species name is derived from the adjective gemellus (meaning twin) and refers to the similarity to Bryotropha galbanella.

Chekism

In this context, the adjective Chekist (from Cheka, the first Soviet secret police organization) emphasizes the importance and political power of Cheka and its successor Soviet and Russian secret police services, such as the NKVD, KGB, and FSB.

Codex Iuliacensis

The adjective "Iuliacensis" refers to the Rhenish town of Jülich, Latin "Iuliacum", formerly capital of the county / duchy of the same name.

Collateral adjective

Attributive usage of a collateral adjective is generally similar in meaning to attributive use of the corresponding noun.

Compound modifier

A compound modifier (also called a compound adjective, phrasal adjective, or adjectival phrase) is a compound of two or more attributive words: That is, more than one word that together modify a noun.

Cupul

Cupul or Kupul, (Maya: Kupul, 'toponímico; adjective') was the name of a Maya chiefdom at time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.

Cytherean

Cytherean is an adjective meaning pertaining to Cythera (Greek Κύθηρα, also transliterated Kythera or Kithira), a small island now part of Greece, southeast of the Peloponnesus.

Danish grammar

The definite e-form is historically identical to the so-called weak declension of the Germanic adjective, cf.

Ethylic

Ethylic is an adjective for a molecule containing an ethyl group.

Greenberg's linguistic universals

"When the adjective follows the noun, the adjective expresses all the inflectional categories of the noun. In such cases the noun may lack overt expression of one or all of these categories."

Hessisch Oldendorf

The adjective "Hessisch" is used since 1905, to distinguish it from other towns named Oldendorf.

Hladová zeď

The adjective Hladová (hungry) appeared after a 1361 famine, when the construction works on the wall provided livelihood for the city's poor.

Hohenneuffen Castle

The pre-Germanic name Neuffen is derived from the proto-Celtic adjective nobos, meaning holy or sacred, implying that the mountain had a religious rather than a military function 2000 years ago.

Inape parastella

The species name refers to the similarity with Inape stella plus the Latin adjective para (meaning similar).

King Size Dick

Another example of the use of the German adjective as a nickname is for the comedy duo of Laurel and Hardy, which Germans often refer to a "Dick und Doof", meaning fat and stupid, as per the German Wikipedia page on this topic.

Louis, Grand Dauphin

The Delphin Classics was a large edition of the Latin classics, edited in the 1670s for Louis (Delphin is the adjective derived from dauphin) Thirty-nine scholars contributed to the series, which was edited by Pierre Huet, with assistance from several co-editors including Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet and Anne Dacier.

Mazursky

Mazurski or Mazursky is a Polish language family name derived, as an adjective, from the words "Mazur" or "Mazury" (Mazovia) and meaning "of Mazur" or "from Mazur".

Mem

Mīm is used in the creation of ism words (i.e. nouns and adjectives; they are treated fundamentally the same in Arabic grammar).

Meroitic

Meroitic is an adjective referring to things related to the kingdom of Meroë in pre-Islamic Sudan.

Občice

Like the toponyms Občine and Opčine, it may be derived from the Slovene adjective obči 'held in common' from the Slavic root *obьťь, referring to an early landholding arrangement.

Pijava Gorica

The first element is probably a possessive adjective based on the oeconym Pijavec, referring to a property where water sinks into the ground.

Portolan chart

The word portolan comes from the Italian adjective portolano, meaning "related to ports or harbours."

Post-Individualism

The Oxford English Dictionary (1971) notes the adjective "individual" in 1425 referring to the Catholic Trinity, in 1600 to a mate who could not be separated from the spouse and not until 1613 as describing a particular person in contrast to a group.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Concordia, Kansas

The Latin adjective referring to this episcopal see is Concordiensis, while that referring to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Concordia, a residential see in Argentina, is Foroconcordianus.

Rødgrød

The essential ingredients that justify the adjective are red summer berries such as redcurrant, blackcurrant, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, bilberries and stoned black cherries.

Samnite

Samnite is an adjective meaning "having to do with ancient Samnium."

San Giovanni Fuoricivitas

The adjective fuoricivitas (a mix of Italian and Latin meaning "outside the city") refers to the fact that, when it was founded during the Lombard rule in Italy, was located outside the city walls.

Serbians

In a similar way, adjectives "Serb" and "Serbian" could be used to mean "of Serbs" and "of Serbia", respectively, though they too are used interchangeably.

Single-word modifier

Adverb, a word which modifies a verb, adjective, or other word or phrase

Slut

The adjective "slutty" carries a similar connotation, but can be applied both to people and to clothing and accessories, such as Halloween costumes.

Songways

The JazzTimes review by Thomas Conrad said "Songways is one of the prettiest piano trio albums of the new millennium... In jazz, “pretty” is often an adjective that damns with faint praise. Battaglia’s music is pretty but neither shallow nor soft".

Stygian Owl

The adjective Stygian means "of, or relating to, the River Styx", but is more widely applied to anything that is dark or dismal.

Tangerine

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "tangerine" was originally an adjective meaning "Of or pertaining to, or native of Tangier, a seaport in Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar" and "a native of Tangier."

The Something Rain

In a video interview with the Dutch online music magazine FaceCulture, singer Stuart Staples said the album's title was inspired by a story related by guitarist David Kitt, when Kitt had been sent to a songwriting workshop in the United States, and a fellow attendee was having trouble finding a suitable adjective to describe the song he was writing.

Tzedakah

It is based on the Hebrew word (צדק, Tzedek) meaning righteousness, fairness or justice, and it is related to the Hebrew word Tzadik meaning righteous as an adjective (or righteous individual as a noun in the form of a substantive).

Upper Burgundy

The adjective "upper" refers to its location further up the Rhone Valley as distinct from Lower Burgundy (Cisjurania) and also from the Duchy of Burgundy west of the Saône river.

Welwitschii

Welwitschii is a New Latin adjective that refers to Friedrich Welwitsch (1806-1872), an Austrian explorer and botanist in Angola.

West Australian

West Australian is an adjective commonly referring to people or things from the Australian state of Western Australia.


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