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 postnominal adjective Mazowiecki shows the historical connection to Mazovia and distinguishes Mińsk Mazowiecki from the Belarusian capital of Minsk.

The adjective little distinguishes the creek from the ( Greater ) Cataraqui River 4. 5 kilometers to the east, which forms the beginning of the Rideau Canal.

Although ternary most often refers to a system in which the three digits,, and are all whole numbers, the adjective also lends its name to the balanced ternary system, used in comparison logic and ternary computers.

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 ).

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.

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

In computer science and mathematics, which do not usually deal with natural languages, the adjective " formal " is often omitted as redundant.

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

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 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.

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 ".

Compare the carved and incised " sacred glyphs " hieroglyphs, which have had a longer history in English, dating from the first Elizabethan translation of Plutarch, who adopted " hieroglyphic " as a Latin adjective.

This last phrase ( from 1 Timothy 6: 20 ) is the origin of the title of the book by Irenaeus, On the Detection and Overthrow of False Knowledge, that contains the adjective gnostikos, which is the source for the 17th Century English term " Gnosticism.

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 point is that " strongly interacting particles " is a very clumsy term which does not yield itself to the formation of an adjective.

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.

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.

The word Lucifer is taken from the Latin Vulgate, which translates ה ֵ יל ֵ ל as lucifer, meaning " the morning star, the planet Venus " ( or, as an adjective, " light-bringing "), The Septuagint renders ה ֵ יל ֵ ל in Greek as ἑωσφόρος ( heōsphoros ) meaning " morning star ".

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.

By extension, the term " manichean " is widely applied ( often disparagingly ) as an adjective to a philosophy or attitude of moral dualism, according to which a moral course of action involves a clear ( or simplistic ) choice between good and evil, or as a noun to people who hold such a view.

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 case ( abbreviated ) is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb or the predicate noun or predicate adjective, as opposed to its object or other verb arguments.

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.

Furthermore, various institutions, monuments and the like, are named for current or previous heads of state, such as streets and squares, schools, charitable and other organizations ; in monarchies ( e. g. Belgium ) there can even be a practice to attribute the adjective " royal " on demand based on existence for a given number of years.

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

The correct way to say " I'm embarrassed " in Spanish is using the phrase tengo vergüenza ( meaning " I have shame ") or the more formal phrases me da vergüenza or estoy avergonzado .< sup > 2 </ sup > Yet, in Spanish, there also exists the adjective embarazoso, meaning the same as " embarrassing " in its denotation of something that causes a sensation of unease, but not of shame .< sup > 3 </ sup > Complicating the issue further, embarazada can sometimes also mean " hampered ", or " hindered ".< sup > 4 </ sup > This more closely mirrors the original meaning of the English word embarrass .< sup > 5 </ sup >

So there was this guy Maciunas, a Lithuanian or Bulgarian, or somehow a refugee or whatever — beautifully dressed —" astonishing looking " would be a better adjective.

A large part of the reason for this was that much prose was expected to adhere to the rules of sec ( سجع, also transliterated as seci ), or rhymed prose, a type of writing descended from the Arabic saj ' and which prescribed that between each adjective and noun in a sentence, there must be a rhyme.

The adjective Dilmun is used to describe a type of axe and one specific official ; in addition there are lists of rations of wool issued to people connected with Dilmun.

Despite the explicit difference between the noun and adjective, there have been comments on the comparison.

For traditionalists, there are linguistic problems with using the word as an adjective or noun on its own.

Gender neutrality ( adjective form: gender-neutral ) describes the idea that language and other social institutions should avoid distinguishing people by their gender, in order to avoid discrimination arising from the impression that there are social roles for which one gender is more suited than the other.

Just as groups often appear as symmetries, quantum groups act on many other mathematical objects and it has become fashionable to introduce the adjective quantum in such cases ; for example there are quantum planes and quantum Grassmannians.

In Wales there were said to be two fairies or elves called Silly Frit and Sili go Dwt whose names represent a borrowing of the adjective silly ( in this case meaning happy ) as applied to fantastical beings from its usage on the English marches bordering Wales rather than the Anglo-Scottish border ; the former name being purely English while the latter is a corruption of English fairy names featuring " tot " ( such as Tom Tit Tot ) as an element.

gravitational potential well of an increasing mass where A scalar potential is a fundamental concept in vector analysis and physics ( the adjective scalar is frequently omitted if there is no danger of confusion with vector potential ).

" It is claimed that the adjective " Royal " was added at the end of the 18th century after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany had stayed there.

If there is some racially deprecatory meaning or it is expressive of hate, it is shown by the addition of the adjective, sei ( 死, jyutping: sei2, meaning dead or damned ) or as a prefix: seigwailo ( 死鬼佬 ).

A large part of the reason for this was that much prose was expected to adhere to the rules of sec ( سجع, also transliterated as seci ), or rhymed prose, a type of writing descended from the Arabic saj ' and which prescribed that between each adjective and noun in a sentence, there must be a rhyme.

Although there is some debate among scholars, it is generally thought that such a construction in Old English was not analogous to progressive aspect signaled in present-day English ( a more modern development ), but rather carried the meaning of a simple stative verb, where the past participle functioned as an adjective, and was predominantly used for translating the corresponding construction in Latin texts ( Brinton, 1988, p. 109 ).

Schools commonly teach that there are 9 parts of speech in English: noun, verb, article, adjective, preposition, pronoun, adverb, conjunction, and interjection.

Beatrice Santorini gives examples in " Part-of-speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank Project ," ( 3rd rev, June 1990 ), including the following ( p. 32 ) case in which entertaining can function either as an adjective or a verb, and there is no evident way to decide:

In some cases there are three possibilities, as can be seen in the English noun helix ( x = ), its plural helices ( c = ), and its adjective helical ( c = ).

| The verb welsh ( also spelled welch ) is of unknown etymology but is often described as deriving from the adjective Welsh and consequently perceived as insulting to people from Wales, although there is no direct evidence of the connection, nor any popular perception that people from Wales do not comply with agreements.

"); as an adjective meaning substandard or faulty (" messed-up animation "); and even as a noun meaning any negative thing (" there are several mess-ups ").

The name Riothamus has been interpreted by some as a title " High King ", though there is no evidence for such a title being used by ancient Britons or Gauls and the formation of the name ( noun / adjective + superlative-tamo-suffix ) follows a pattern found in numerous other Brittonic and Gaulish personal names ( for example, Old Breton / Welsh Cunatam / Cunotami / Condam / Cyndaf * Cunotamos " Great Dog ", Old Welsh Caurdaf * Cauarotamos " Great Giant ", Old Welsh / Breton Eudaf / Outham * Auitamos " Great Will / Desire ", Uuoratam / Gwrdaf * Uortamos " Supreme ", Old Breton Rumatam * Roimmotamos " Great Band / Host ", Gwyndaf * Uindotamos " Fairest / Whitest / Holiest One ", Breton Uuentamau * Uenutamaua: " Friendliest or * Uendutamaua: " Little Fairest / Whitest / Holiest ( One )").

It is an adjective for which there is no quite fitting English translation.