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See also:adjectivé

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishadjectif,adjective, fromOld Frenchadjectif, fromLatinadiectivus, fromadiciō +-īvus, fromad-(“to, towards, at”) +iaciō(“throw”). The Latin wordadiectivus in turn was a calque ofAncient Greekἐπιθετικόν(epithetikón,“added”), a derivative of the compound verbἐπιτίθημι(epitíthēmi), from which also comesepithet.

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adjective (pluraladjectives)

EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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  2. (grammar) Aword thatmodifies anoun or noun phrase ordescribes a noun’s referent.
    The words “big” and “heavy” are Englishadjectives.
  3. (obsolete) Adependent; anaccessory.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller,The History of theUniversity of Cambridge, since the Conquest,[London]:[[…] Iohn Williams […]],→OCLC:
      it must be anadjective of dain

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(grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent

Adjective

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adjective (notcomparable)

  1. (grammar)Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
    Synonym:adjectival
  2. (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
    Synonym:procedural
    Antonym:substantive
  3. (chemistry, of adye) Needing the use of amordant to be madefast to that which is being dyed.
    Antonym:substantive
  4. (obsolete, reflected in the chemical sense, but extinct as a general sense) Incapable of independent function.
    • 1899,John Jay Chapman,Emerson and Other Essays, AMS Press (1969) (asreproduced in Project Gutenberg)
      In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God isadjective to man.
    Synonyms:dependent,derivative
    Coordinate terms:adjunct,adjunctive,adjutant

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incapable of independent function
adjectival—seeadjectival
methods of enforcement and rules of procedure
of a dye that needs the use of a mordant

Verb

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adjective (third-person singular simple presentadjectives,present participleadjectiving,simple past and past participleadjectived)

  1. (transitive) Tomake an adjective of; toform orconvert into an adjective.
    • 1805,John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley Part 2
      Language has as much occasion toadjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has […] adjectived all three.
    • 1832, William Hunter,An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives, page46:
      In English, instead ofadjectiving our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers,adjectived signs from other languages[…]
  2. (transitive, chiefly as a participle) Tocharacterize with an adjective; todescribe by using an adjective.

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to make an adjective of—see alsoadjectivize

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French

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Adjective

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adjective

  1. femininesingular ofadjectif

Latin

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Adjective

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adjectīve

  1. vocativemasculinesingular ofadjectīvus

Portuguese

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Verb

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adjective

  1. inflection ofadjectivar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

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adjective

  1. plural ofadjectiv

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FromLatin(nomen)adjectivum.

Noun

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adjective (pluraladjectives)

  1. (grammar)adjective
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