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English

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Etymology

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Fromornament +‎-al.

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Adjective

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ornamental (comparativemoreornamental,superlativemostornamental)

  1. Serving as anornament; having no purpose other than to make more beautiful.
    Synonyms:beautifying,embellishing,decorative
    Some think it mostornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.
    • 1749,Henry Fielding, chapter I, inThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:A[ndrew] Millar, [],→OCLC, book IV:
      We shall leave to the reader to determine with what judgment we have chosen the several occasions for inserting thoseornamental parts of our work.
    • 1968, Carl Ruhen,The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page20:
      There wereornamental ponds and shrubs clipped into animal shapes, painted concrete gnomes sitting on mushrooms, pink flamingos standing on one leg[.]
  2. (of a plant, fish, etc.)Bred foraesthetic ordecorativepurposes.
    Those pine trees on the lawn are the fastest-growingornamentals we could find.

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serving to ornament
bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes

Noun

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ornamental (pluralornamentals)

  1. An ornamentalplant.
    • 1991 October 10, Jackson Granholm, “In praise of the tumbleweed”, inNews Chronicle, Thousand Oaks, Calif.,pageB-7, column 3:
      The tumbleweed is a gracious gift from the Russians, having been imported as a favoredornamental from the steppes of central Asia.

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plant serving to ornament

Catalan

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Etymology

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Fromornament +‎-al.

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Adjective

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ornamental m orf (masculine and feminine pluralornamentals)

  1. ornamental

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Galician

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Etymology

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Fromornamento +‎-al.

Adjective

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ornamental m orf (pluralornamentais)

  1. ornamental

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Fromornamento(ornament) +‎-al(of or relating to).

Pronunciation

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  • (Portugal)IPA(key): /ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈtal/[ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈtaɫ]
    • (Southern Portugal)IPA(key): /ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈta.li/

  • Rhymes:(Portugal)-al,(Brazil)-aw
  • Hyphenation:or‧na‧men‧tal

Adjective

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ornamental m orf (pluralornamentais)

  1. ornamental

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchornemental. Bysurface analysis,ornament +‎-al.

Adjective

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ornamental m orn (feminine singularornamentală,masculine pluralornamentali,feminine and neuter pluralornamentale)

  1. ornamental

Declension

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Declension ofornamental
singularplural
masculineneuterfemininemasculineneuterfeminine
nominative-
accusative
indefiniteornamentalornamentalăornamentaliornamentale
definiteornamentalulornamentalaornamentaliiornamentalele
genitive-
dative
indefiniteornamentalornamentaleornamentaliornamentale
definiteornamentaluluiornamentaleiornamentalilorornamentalelor

Spanish

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Etymology

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Fromornamento +‎-al.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /oɾnamenˈtal/[oɾ.na.mẽn̪ˈt̪al]
  • Rhymes:-al
  • Syllabification:or‧na‧men‧tal

Adjective

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ornamental m orf (masculine and feminine pluralornamentales)

  1. ornamental

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Swedish

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Adjective

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ornamental (notcomparable)

  1. ornamental

Declension

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Inflection ofornamental
Indefinitepositivecomparativesuperlative1
common singularornamental
neuter singularornamentalt
pluralornamentala
masculine plural2ornamentale
Definitepositivecomparativesuperlative
masculine singular3ornamentale
allornamentala

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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