The word can be used as both a noun and an adjective.

The word British is an adjective referring in various ways to the United Kingdom, or the island of Great Britain, and its people.

The word may be a compound containing the Old English adjective brytten ( from the verb breotan meaning ' to break ' or ' to disperse '), an element also found in the terms bryten rice (' kingdom '), bryten-grund (' the wide expanse of the earth ') and bryten cyning (' king whose authority was widely extended ').

The word " Bahá ' í " is used either as an adjective to refer to the Bahá ' í Faith or as a term for a follower of Bahá ' u ' lláh.

Kenneth Jackson concludes, based on later development of Welsh and Irish, that it derives from the Proto-Celtic feminine adjective * boudīka, " victorious ", derived from the Celtic word * bouda, " victory " ( cf.

The word “ classics ” is derived from the Latin adjective classicus: “ belonging to the highest class of citizens ”, connoting superiority, authority, and perfection.

The name most likely corresponds to the word Breton, the French adjective referring to the Atlantic province of Brittany.

The word maritime is an adjective that simply means " of the sea ", thus any land associated with the sea can be considered a maritime state or province ( e. g. All the provinces of Canada except Alberta and Saskatchewan border water ).

The word catholic ( derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective ( katholikos ), meaning " universal ") comes from the Greek phrase ( katholou ), meaning " on the whole ", " according to the whole " or " in general ", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning " about " and meaning " whole ".

The word " divine " in the New Testament is the Greek word θείας (" theias "), and is the adjective form of " divinity ".

An epic ( from the Ancient Greek adjective ( epikos ), from ( epos ) " word, story, poem ") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

Middle High German has a feminine singular elbe and a plural elbe, elber, but the word becomes very rare, mostly surviving in the adjective elbisch, and is replaced by the English form elf, elfen via 18th century German translations of Shakespeare's A Midsummernight's Dream.

The suffixes-o ,-a ,-e, and-i indicate that a word is a noun, adjective, adverb, and infinitive verb, respectively.

A suffix-j following the noun or adjective suffixes-o or-a makes a word plural.

The word fresco ( Italian: affresco ) is derived from the Italian adjective fresco meaning " fresh ".

The English word " vulgar " ( something vile, rude, crude or disgusting ) has the rough translation of " ordinário / a " in Portuguese which is also used as an adjective to insult people: " Seu ordinário!

( The adjective genetic, derived from the Greek word genesis — γένεσις, " origin ", predates the noun and was first used in a biological sense in 1860.

The word gymnastics derives from the common Greek adjective ( gymnos ) meaning " naked ", by way of the related verb γυμνάζω ( gymnazo ), whose meaning is " to train naked ", " train in gymnastic exercise ", generally " to train, to exercise ".

In some languages, particularly Slavic languages, a case may contain different groups of endings depending on whether the word is a noun or an adjective.

By this time the puzzle seems to have mutated to a form in which the missing word is an adjective that describes the state of the world.

The word cilig appears to be meaningless in English, but in some dialects of Gaelic is used as an adjective meaning " easily deceived ".

With his bull Cum praeexcelsa of 28 February 1477, in which he referred to the feast as that of the Conception of Mary, without using the word " Immaculate ", he granted indulgences to those who would participate in the specially composed Mass or Office on the feast itself or during its octave, and he used the word " immaculate " of Mary, but applied instead the adjective " miraculous " to her conception.

In French, étasunien, from États-Unis d ' Amérique, distinguishes U. S. things and persons from the adjective américain, which denotes persons and things from the United States but may also refer to ' the Americas '; likewise, the German usages U. S .- amerikanisch and U. S .- Amerikaner observe said cultural distinction, solely denoting U. S. things and people.

A Gallo-Latin adjective carnuātus, " horned ," is also found.

The article is also used for inalienable possession of body parts and kin terms, where English would use a possessive adjective:

Essential tremor was also previously known as " benign essential tremor ", but the adjective " benign " has been removed in recognition of the sometimes disabling nature of the disorder.

Fudge characters can also have Gifts and Faults, which are positive and negative traits that do not fit into the adjective scale.

The goal is to match or surpass the difficulty level, also on the adjective scale, of the test.

Farsi ( adjective ) may also refer to Persian people

In Ancient Greek those last three words would be rendered tōi podi ( τῷ ποδί ), with the noun pous ( πούς, foot ) changing to podi to reflect the fact that John is using his foot as an instrument ( any adjective modifying " foot " would also change case to match ).

Plato, uses the plural adjective γνωστικοί – gnostikoi and the singular feminine adjective γνωστικὴ ἐπιστήμη – gnostike episteme in his Politikos where Gnostike episteme was also used to indicate one's aptitude.

The Spirit ( الروح al-Ruh, without the adjective " holy ") is also used as the creative spirit from God by which God enlivened Adam, and inspired the angels and the prophets.

The adjective of freshwater is also used for people who promotes concepts when they are popular and blame the same concepts while they are not as popular as it used to be.

The term leet is also used as an adjective to describe formidable prowess or accomplishment, especially in the fields of online gaming and in its original usage, computer hacking.

In English, the noun " mammoth " also has become an adjective meaning " large " or " massive ".

Multimedia ( as an adjective ) also describes electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content.

There are also number words which enumerate but are not a distinct part of speech, such as ' dozen ', which is a noun, ' first ', which is an adjective, or ' twice ', which is an adverb.

The nominative also marks things equal to the subject ( that is, a predicate noun or adjective ).

The language is called “ Old Prussian ” to avoid confusion with the German dialects Low Prussian and High Prussian, and the adjective “ Prussian ”, which is also often used to relate to the later German state.

The term " polynomial " can also be used as an adjective, for quantities that can be expressed as a polynomial of some parameter, as in polynomial time, which is used in computational complexity theory.

The adjective ( philologos ) meant " fond of discussion or argument, talkative ", in Hellenistic Greek also implying an excessive (" sophistic ") preference of argument over the love of true wisdom,

The term " Middle Ages " and especially the adjective medieval can also have a negative ring in colloquial use (" the barbaric treatment of prisoners in such-and-such a prison is almost medieval ") but this does not carry over into academic terminology.

The original meaning of the adjective profane ( from Latin pro fano, " in front of " or " before, outside " the fanum, a sanctuary ) referred to items not belonging to the church, e. g., " The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest building ," or " besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings ".