Less frequently, the adjective can take this meaning without a qualifier, as in " American Spanish dialects and pronunciation differ by country ", or the name of the Organization of American States.

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

Hevelius chose the name Asterion ( from the Greek ' αστέριον, meaning the " little star ", the diminutive of ' αστηρ the " star ", or adjective meaning " starry ") for the northern dog and Chara ( from the Greek χαρά, meaning " joy ") for the southern dog, as Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs, in his star atlas.

The adjective Cartesian refers to the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes ( who used the name Cartesius in Latin ).

The French name Îles Malouines was given to the islands – malouin being the adjective for the Breton port of Saint-Malo.

The name hoar comes from an Old English adjective for showing signs of old age, and is used in this context in reference to the frost which makes trees and bushes look like white hair.

Galen's name, Galēnos comes from the adjective " γαληνός ", " calm ".

Trying to identify a contemporary vernacular term and the associated nation with a classical name, Latin writers from the 10th century onwards used the learned adjective teutonicus ( originally derived from the Teutones ) to refer to East Francia (" Regnum Teutonicum ") and its inhabitants.

The name Geri can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic adjective * geraz, attested in Burgundian girs, Old Norse gerr and Old High German ger or giri, all of which mean " greedy ".

The name Freki can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic adjective * frekaz, attested in Gothic faihu-friks " covetous, avaricious ", Old Norse frekr " greedy ", Old English frec " desirous, greedy, gluttonous, audacious " and Old High German freh " greedy ".

Irenaeus ' comparative adjective gnostikeron " more learned ", evidently cannot mean " more Gnostic " as a name.

Zygmunt Gloger in his work Historical geography of land of ancient Poland ( Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski ) states that according to a Polish custom, whenever a new village was formed next to an older one, the name of the new entity was presented with an adjective little ( or lesser ), while the old village was described as greater.

The adjective " abelian ", derived from his name, has become so commonplace in mathematical writing that it is conventionally spelled with a lower-case initial " a " ( e. g., abelian group, abelian category, and abelian variety ).

The name " platypus " is often prefixed with the adjective " duck-billed " to form duck-billed platypus, despite there being only one species of platypus.

alt = Photo of mostly transparent diatoms of varying shapes: one resembles a bagel, another a short length of tape, others look like tiny kayaksThe name plankton is derived from the Greek adjective πλαγκτός-planktos, meaning " errant ", and by extension " wanderer " or " drifter ".

The original name is most often augmented with an adjective ( rather than being completely displaced ) to account for later developments of the object or concept itself.

The original use of an adjective to describe a particular variant of an object is typically purely compositional, as in " acoustic guitar ", but gradually over time it becomes a collocation, a name or technical term in its own right with additional nuances, greater specificity and general but implicit agreement on it as the appropriate term versus alternative descriptions of the original type.

Other notable innovations were the omission of the adjective " perfidis " in the Good Friday Prayer for the Jews and the insertion of the name of Saint Joseph into the Canon ( or Eucharistic Prayer ) of the Mass.

While Shaitan ( شيطان, from the root ) is an adjective ( meaning " astray " or " distant ", sometimes translated as " devil ") that can be applied to both man (" al-ins ", الإنس ) and Jinn, Iblis () is the personal name of the Devil who is mentioned in the Qur ' anic account of Genesis.

The name " Agnes " is actually derived from the feminine Greek adjective " hagnē " ( ἁγνή ) meaning " chaste, pure, sacred ".

The chemical name for vitamin C, ascorbic acid, is derived from the Latin name of scurvy, scorbutus, which also provides the adjective scorbutic (" of, characterized by or having to do with scurvy ").

* All Humanists, nationally and internationally, should always use the one word Humanism as the name of Humanism: no added adjective, and the initial letter capital ( by life stance orthography );

is the devi feminine of an adjective ( which occurs in the Rigveda as the name of the keeper of the celestial waters ), derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian * ( and earlier, PIE ), meaning ‘ marshy, full of pools ’.

The adjective of relation pertaining to deer is cervine ; like the family name " Cervidae ", this is from, " deer ".

The relating adjective is consular, from the Latin consularis ( which has been used, substantiated, as a title in its own right ).

Even apart from documents drawn up jointly with other churches, it has sometimes, in view of the central position it attributes to the See of Rome, adopted the adjective " Roman " for the whole church, Eastern as well as Western, as in the papal encyclicals Divini illius Magistri and Humani generis.

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.

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.

More recently, the adjective " faunal " has been dropped as regional and global correlations of rock sequences have become relatively certain and there is less need for faunal labels to define the age of formations.

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!

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

The word " Merovingian " has been used as an adjective, at least five times in Swann's Way by Marcel Proust.

Machiavelli has become infamous for such political advice, ensuring that he would be remembered in history through the adjective, " Machiavellian.

The adjective quasicrystalline has been already in use but now it came to be applied to any pattern with unusual symmetry.

The German adjective, on the other hand, has an exact cognate in English rich.

Originating in the early 17th century, the now obsolete adjective whist and variant spelling wist ( in which the word wistful has its roots ), meant quiet, silent, and / or attentive.

The Western religious philosophy called Theosophy has popularized the word Akasha as an adjective, through the use of the term " Akashic records " or " Akashic library ", referring to an ethereal compendium of all knowledge and history.

In this process, an adjective that refers to or has referred to a disfavored group has adopted a more generic sense of negativity, sometimes not even referring to a person.

The adjective indigenous has the common meaning of " from " or " of the original origin ".

The term also has various other derived uses and, like fuck and its derivatives, has been used mutatis mutandis as noun, pronoun, adjective, participle and other parts of speech.

As an adjective, the term sometimes has a meaning opposite its usual connotations.

Words in one class can sometimes be derived from those in another ; this can give rise to new words, for example the noun aerobics has recently given rise to the adjective aerobicized.

Similarly, adjective phrases and adverb phrases function as if they were adjectives or adverbs ; but with other types of phrase the terminology has different implications.

In grammar, the adjective inuit " Inuit " is invariable in France but, according to official recommendations in Quebec, has regular feminine and plural forms.

Although " collectable " is the spelling listed first for the adjective by the Oxford English Dictionary and is standard spelling in British English, the dictionary observes that the "- ible " form is also valid and this has come to be the common spelling in the United States.

Saraṇyū means " swift " and is derived from the adjective saraṇa (" running ", " swift "), the feminine of which is saraṇā ; this is in every sound cognate with, the form of her name that has no initial digamma.