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

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

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

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 derived adjective incestuous appears in the 16th century.

The word ' kludge ' is ... derived from the German adjective klug, originally meaning ' smart ' or ' witty '.... ' Kludge ' eventually came to mean ' not so smart '.

The corresponding adjective is Middle-Eastern and the derived noun is Middle-Easterner.

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 ).

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 ".

Double prefixes have been used in the past, such as micromillimetres ( now nanometres ), micromicrofarads ( now picofarads ), hectokilometres ( now 100 kilometres ) and the derived adjective hectokilometric ( typically used for qualifying the fuel consumption measures ).

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 ").

Related terms are common in the medical literature, where the nouns tumefaction and tumescence ( derived from the adjective tumefied ), are current medical terms for non-neoplastic swelling.

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 ’.

An English adverb, which is derived from an adjective, is arranged in the German language under the adjectives with adverbial use in the sentence.

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.

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.

Most adverbs are derived from an adjective by adding the suffix-ment to its feminine form (- ment is analogous to the English suffix-ly ), though some adverbs are derived irregularly, and many do not derive from adjectives at all.

Alternatively, hoax could have been derived from the Irish Gaelic olcas, pronounced olkəs and h-olkəs, an adjective used to describe behaviour similar to mischief, naughtiness, spite, wickedness, evil.

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 ).

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.

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 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 ".

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 can be used as both a noun and an adjective.

For example, in this grammar, some special words are for teaching languages, and not part of Basic English: plural, conjugate, noun, adjective, adverb, qualifier, operator, pronoun, and directive.

" Ceramic " may be used as an adjective describing a material, product or process ; or as a singular noun, or, more commonly, as a plural noun, " ceramics ".

It was not until the late 16th century that the two words came to have the same basic meaning as a related adjective and noun.

Diacritic is primarily an adjective, though sometimes used as a noun, whereas diacritical is always and only an adjective.

Brentano argued that we can join the concept represented by a noun phrase " an A " to the concept represented by an adjective " B " to give the concept represented by the noun phrase " a B-A ".

* Using an adjective to refer to an element of a person, rather than using a noun to define them, for example, "... makes her look slutty " instead of "... is a slut "

Other later Germanic forms include Middle English, Old Frisian ( adjective and noun ), Old Saxon, Old High German, and evil Gothic.

* predication, of the form " noun copula adjective " cat is furry

Parts of speech are immediately obvious, for example: Τhe suffix-o indicates a noun ,-a an adjective ,-as a present-tense verb, and so on for other grammatical functions.

The article la, like the demonstrative adjective tiu ( this, that ), nearly always occurs at the beginning of the noun phrase, but this is not required by the grammar, and exceptions occur in poetry.

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

Similarly, an abstraction of a nominal root ( changing it to an adjective and then back to a noun ) requires the suffix-eco, as in infaneco ( childhood ), but an abstraction of an adjectival or verbal root merely requires the nominal-o: belo ( beauty ).

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

A predicative adjective does not take the accusative case suffix even when the noun it modifies does:

The adjective feudal was coined in the 17th century, and the noun feudalism, often used in a political and propaganda context, was not coined until the 19th century.

In the 19th century the adjective " feudal " ( i. e. " the feudal government ") evolved into a noun: feudalism.

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 ).

In Hungarian and many Indo-European, Balto-Finnic, and Semitic languages, case is marked on the noun, the determiner, and usually the adjective.