It was the distinguishing virtue of the founding hero Aeneas, who is often given the adjectival epithet pius throughout Vergil's epic Aeneid.

The same word in adjectival form ( purgatorius-a-um, cleansing ), which appears also in non-religious writing, was already used by Christians such as Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory I to refer to an after-death cleansing.

In adjectival use, it is generally understood to mean " of or relating to the United States "; for example, " Elvis Presley was an American singer " or " the American President gave a speech today ".

René Descartes (; Latinized form: Renatus Cartesius ; adjectival form: " Cartesian "; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650 ) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.

:" As soon as a noun enters the domain of metaphor, as one modern scholar has pointed out, it clamours for extension ; and satura ( which had had no verbal, adverbial, or adjectival forms ) was immediately broadened by appropriation from the Greek word for “ satyr ” ( satyros ) and its derivatives.

The term " society " came from the Latin word societas, which in turn was derived from the noun socius (" comrade, friend, ally "; adjectival form socialis ) used to describe a bond or interaction among parties that are friendly, or at least civil.

A different etymology grounded in the legendary history of Latium and Etruria was proposed by Preller and Müller-Deeke: Etruscan Nethunus, Nethuns would be an adjectival form of toponym Nepe ( t ), Nepete ( presently Nepi ), town of the ager Faliscus near Falerii.

" Antiquary " was the usual term in English from the 16th to the mid-18th centuries to describe a person interested in antiquities ( the word " antiquarian " being generally found only in an adjectival sense ).

The adjectival form of the name was " Prut ( h ) enic ".

The suffix-ika was first used to create adjectival forms and then, names ( See regions as Pays d ' Ouche < Utica, Perche < Pertica ).

Zeller was also, in Philosophie der Griechen, one of the first to use the term " übermensch ", later reified by Nietzsche, in adjectival form: "... so kann die Glückseligkeit, welche in ihr besteht, auch als eine übermenschliche, die Glückseligkeit der ethischen Tugend dagegen als das eigenthümlich menschliche Gut bezeichnet werden.

Şanlı ( from Arabic shan ( شأن ) " dignity " + Turkish adjectival suffix-lı ) means " great, glorious, dignified " in Turkish, and Urfa was officially renamed Şanlıurfa ( Urfa the Glorious ) by the Turkish Grand National Assembly in 1984, in recognition of the local resistance in the Turkish War of Independence.

The Russian orthography was made simpler by unifying several adjectival and pronominal inflections, replacing the letters ( Yat ) with е, і ( depending on the context of Moscovian pronunciation ) and with и, with ф, and dropping the archaic mute yer, including the ъ ( the " hard sign ") in final position following consonants ( thus eliminating practically the last graphical remnant of the Old Slavonic open-syllable system ).

In the early decades of public education, the full title was " principal teacher ", which accounts for the present day title having an adjectival form, essentially being a foreshortened version of the original full title.

Strictly, the Russian term, Svetlost, was an honorific used in adjectival form ( Светлейший: Svetleyshiy ) to refer to members of a select few of Russia's princely families ( e. g. " The Serene " Prince Anatoly Pavlovich Lieven or " The Serene " Prince Dmitri Vladimirovich Golitsyn ).

The alternative form ḥajjī is derived from the name of the Hajj with the adjectival suffix-ī, and this was the form adopted by non-Arabic languages.

Flavianus was an originally adjectival form of the name Flavius.

The-avi, an adjectival ending, later resulted in-au in other place names, but was dropped in this one.

It was suggested that since Venus had a Greek name, as well as a Roman one, this should be used ; however, the adjectival form of Aphrodite was " aphrodisial ", which again was felt to be unfortunately close to " aphrodisiac ", again evoking matters not directly pertaining to astronomy.

It seems there was no accusative or adjectival agreement.

Speakers of languages without grammatical case or adjectival agreement frequently complain about these aspects of Esperanto.

* List of adjectival forms of place names

* List of adjectival forms of place names

* List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names

These noun-adjective binomials are just like our own names with a family or surname like Simpson and another adjectival Christian-or forename name that specifies which Simpson, say Homer Simpson.

More recently, especially in science-fictional contexts, the Moon has been called by the Latin name Luna, presumably on the analogy of the Latin names of the planets, or by association with the adjectival form lunar.

** Also used as an adjectival noun in the names of the deepest part of the ocean, e. g. Challenger Deep.

With the exception of perhaps a hundred common or generic plant and animal names, Esperanto adopts the international binomial nomenclature of living organisms, using suitable orthography, and changing the nominal and adjectival grammatical endings to-o and-a.

Many names of elements with the ending-ium come from this adjectival form, e. g. calx ( limestone ), calcis ( of limestone ), calcium ( limestone-like ).

A few names are adjectival, and may contain references to the Deity: Baruch (" blessed "), David (" beloved "), Amos (" strong ").

There is in this period a tendency also toward descriptive and adjectival names with the definite article prefixed, which easily gave rise to such surnames as Hakkaz, Hakkatan, and Hallosheth ( Ezra 2: 61 ; 8: 12 ; Nehemiah 3: 12 ; compare the form ha-Kohelet ( Ecclesiastes 12: 8, in the Hebrew ).

* List of adjectival forms of place names

* In Ukrainian, and analogously in Russian and some other Slavic languages, an adverb is formed by removing the adjectival suffices "- ий " "- а " or "- е " from an adjective, and replacing them with the adverbial "- о ".

Friedrich von Spiegel, Sten Konow, Ernst Herzfeld, James Hope Moulton, Wojciech Skalmowski and some other scholars think that Cambyses ( Kambujiya ) is adjectival form of the Sanskrit tribal name Kamboja.

* The Attic adjectival ending-eios and corresponding noun ending, both two-syllable with the diphthong ei, stand in place of ēios, with three syllables, in other dialects: politeia, Cretan politēia, " constitution ", both from politewia, where the w drops out.

The two principal types of modifiers are adjectives ( and adjectival phrases and adjectival clauses ), which modify nouns ; and adverbs ( and adverbial phrases and adverbial clauses ), which modify other parts of speech, particularly verbs, adjectives and other adverbs, as well as whole phrases or clauses.

The original White Hall hospital had been created after the gift of a house and other property by William " The Dane " ( Norman-French: Le Deneis etc., Latinised to Dacus ( adjectival form of Dacia being mediaeval Latin for Denmark ) modernised to " Dennis ") of Sock Dennis.

Friedrich von Spiegel, Sten Konow, Ernst Herzfeld, James Hope Moulton, Wojciech Skalmowski and some other scholars think that Cambyses ( Kambujiya ) is adjectival form of the Sanskrit tribal name Kamboja.

* Application of these words in adjectival form to other portions of the body by the medical community has resulted in their definitions changing so that they now refer to the angle of the distal segment ( i. e. valgus impaction in a Garden I femoral neck fracture ).

Also in this category are vsakateri (- e ,-a ) ( everyone ) and vsakteri (- e ,-a ) ( everyone, but also used in other, adjectival senses ), both of which are old-fashioned and not used in modern language.

Reforms included changing the spelling by removing non-Roman letters such as ĉ and re-introducing the k / q dichotomy ; removing a couple of the more obscure phonemic contrasts ( one of which,, has been effectively removed from standard Esperanto ); ending the infinitives in-r and the plurals in-i like Italian ; eliminating adjectival agreement, and removing the need for the accusative case by setting up a fixed default word order ; reducing the amount of inherent gender in the vocabulary, providing a masculine suffix and an epicene third-person singular pronoun ; replacing the pronouns and correlatives with forms more similar to the Romance languages ; adding new roots where Esperanto uses the antonymic prefix mal -; replacing much of Esperanto's other regular derivation with separate roots, which are thought to be easier for Westerners to remember ; and replacing much of the Germanic and Slavic vocabulary with Romance forms, such as navo for English-derived ŝipo.

Esperanto II replaced j with y, kv with q, kz with x, and diacritic letters with j ( ĵ and ĝ ), w ( ŭ ), and digraphs sh ( ŝ ), ch ( ĉ ); replaced the passive in-iĝ-with-ev -, the indefinite ending-aŭ with adverbial-e, the accusative-on on nouns with-u, and the plural on nouns with-n ( so membrun for membrojn " members "); dropped adjectival agreement ; broke up the table of concords, changed other small grammatical words such as ey for kaj " and ", and treated pronouns more like nouns, so that the plural of li " he " is lin rather than ili " they ", and the accusative of ĝi " it " is ju.

It is also frequent to derive other words, such as adjectival form cojonudo ( lit.

A preface ( ; adjectival form: " prefatory ") is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author.