The adjective tapasvín means " wretched, poor, miserable ", but also " an ascetic, someone practicing austerities ".

In Spanish, americano denotes geographic and cultural origin in the New World, as well as infrequently a U. S. citizen ; the adjective and noun, denoting estadounidense ( United States person ), derives from Estados Unidos de América ( United States of America ).

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 English term " Gnosticism " derives from the use of the Greek adjective gnostikos (" learned ", " intellectual ", Greek γνωστικός ) by St. Irenaeus ( c. 185 AD ) to describe the school of Valentinus as he legomene gnostike haeresis " the heresy called Learned ( gnostic )".

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 ".

A fresco painting, from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco (" fresh "), describes a method in which the paint is applied on plaster on walls or ceilings.

The adjective bright derives from an Old English beorht with the same meaning via metathesis giving Middle English briht.

In the term plastic surgery, the adjective plastic denotes sculpting, and derives from the Greek πλαστική ( τέχνη ), plastikē ( tekhnē ), “ the art of modelling ” of malleable flesh.

Through late 14th century Old French magique, the word " magic " derives via Latin magicus from the Greek adjective magikos ( μαγικός ) used in reference to the " magical " arts of the Persian Magicians ( Greek: magoi, singular mágos, μάγος ), the Zoroastrian astrologer priests of the ancient Persian Empire.

The noun law derives from the late Old English lagu, meaning something laid down or fixed and the adjective legal comes from the Latin word lex.

In English, the word " sane " derives from the Latin adjective sanus meaning " healthy ".

The word derives from the New Latin noun epicentrum, the latinisation of the ancient Greek adjective ἐπίκεντρος ( epikentros ), " occupying a cardinal point, situated on a centre ", from ἐπί ( epi ) " on, upon, at " and κέντρον ( kentron ) " centre ".

Gemütlichkeit derives from gemütlich, the adjective of Gemüt, which means " heart, mind, temper, feeling " expressed by ( and cognate with ) English mood.

Sir derives from the Middle French honorific title sire ( messire gave rise to mylord ), from the Old French sieur ( itself a contraction of Seigneur meaning ' lord '), from the Latin adjective senior ( elder ), which yielded titles of respect in many European languages.

The term " humility " comes from the Latin word humilitas, a noun related to the adjective, which may be translated as " humble ", but also as " grounded ", " from the earth ", or " low ", since it derives in turns from ( earth ).

The word anacoluthon is a transliteration of the Greek ( anakólouthon ), which derives from the privative prefix ( an -) and the root adjective ( akólouthos ), " following ".

The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, " to tell ", and is related to the adjective gnarus, " knowing " or " skilled ".

Conjecturing that the-a-was altered from an-o-during some prehistoric residence in Illyria he derives the names from an o-grade extension * swo-bho-of an extended e-grade * swe-bho-of the possessive adjective, * s ( e ) we -, of the reflexive pronoun, * se -, " oneself " ( the source of English self ).

Sylvester is a name derived from the Latin adjective silvestris meaning " wooded " or " wild ", which derives from the noun silva meaning " woodland ".

The adjective thermohaline derives from thermo-referring to temperature and-haline referring to salt content, factors which together determine the density of sea water.

The noun virulence derives from the adjective virulent.

Picante is a Spanish adjective meaning " piquant ", which derives from picar (" to sting "), referring to the feeling caused by salsas on one's tongue.

The adjective " jet-black ", meaning as dark a black as possible, derives from this material.

The name derives from the Latin adjective palatinus, " relating to the palace ", from the noun palatium, " palace ".

Draconian is an adjective meaning great severity, that derives from Draco, an Athenian law scribe under whom small offences had heavy punishments ( Draconian laws ).

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.

This term derived from the Greek adjective ( ataraktos ) which means " not disturbed, not excited, without confusion, steady, calm ".

* British ( disambiguation ), adjective meaning from / of Britain ; and derived senses

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 ').

For example, although the words wee and little are interchangeable in some contexts, wee ( as an adjective ) is almost exclusively written by some people from some parts of northern Britain ( and especially Scotland ) or from Northern Ireland, whereas in Southern England and Wales, little is used predominantly.

Bavarian is the adjective form of the German state of Bavaria, and refers to people of ancestry from Bavaria.

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

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

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 words " chaste " and " chastity " stem from the Latin adjective castus meaning " pure ".

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 ".

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.

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.

H. sapiens ( the adjective sapiens is Latin for " wise " or " intelligent ") have lived from about 250, 000 years ago to the present.

The adjective " first-order " distinguishes first-order logic from higher-order logic in which there are predicates having predicates or functions as arguments, or in which one or both of predicate quantifiers or function quantifiers are permitted.

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