In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for " beginning ", or " first " ( in a series ), reflecting its Greek roots.

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 ).

Etymologically, the name is derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ), meaning " defending men " or " protector of men ", a compound of the verb " ἀλέξω " ( alexō ), " to ward off, to avert, to defend " and the noun " ἀνδρός " ( andros ), genitive of " ἀνήρ " ( anēr ), " man ".

The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek feminine noun a-re-ka-sa-da-ra ( transliterated as Alexandra ), written in Linear B syllabic script.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb ἀλέξειν ( alexein ) " to defend " and the noun ἀνδρός ( andros ), genitive of ἀνήρ ( anēr ) " man ".

French Academy member Étienne Gilson summarized this long-known characteristic of the experienced world as follows :"... the word being is a noun ... it signifies either a being ( that is, the substance, nature, and essence of anything existent ), or being itself, a property common to all that which can rightly be said to be.

Baptism ( from the Greek noun Βάπτισμα baptisma ; itself derived from baptismos, washing ) is a Christian rite of admission ( or adoption ), almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally and also a particular church tradition.

The word agni is Sanskrit for fire ( noun ), cognate with Latin ignis ( the root of English ignite ), Russian огонь ( fire ), pronounced agon.

While the United States uses the Anglo-French spelling defense ( noun ), Canadians use the British spellings defence and offence.

An example of a Latin noun declension is given below, using the singular forms of the word homo ( man ), which belongs to Latin's third declension.

It is also called Vazam ( Vzem or Vuzem in Old Croatian ), which is a noun that originated from the Old Church Slavonic verb vzeti ( now uzeti in Croatian, meaning " to take ").

Eucharist: the Greek noun εὐχαριστία ( eucharistia ), meaning " thanksgiving ", is not used in the New Testament as a name for the rite ; however, the related verb is found in New Testament texts concerning the Last Supper, including the earliest:

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

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.

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 ).

In English translations of the New Testament, the word faith generally corresponds to the Greek noun πίστις ( pistis ) or the Greek verb πιστεύω ( pisteuo ), meaning " to trust, to have confidence, faithfulness, to be reliable, to assure ".

Despite the above, the noun form in English (" attendant ") is someone who waits on another, generally with menial tasks and in a temporary fashion, as on an airplane or hotel ; whereas ' assistant ' implies a longer-term, higher level, and often contractual (= employment ), relationship.

Many aspects of the syntax of Greek have remained constant: verbs agree with their subject only, the use of the surviving cases is largely intact ( nominative for subjects and predicates, accusative for objects of most verbs and many prepositions, genitive for possessors ), articles precede nouns, adpositions are largely prepositional, relative clauses follow the noun they modify, relative pronouns are clause-initial.

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 ).

Nkai ( a feminine noun ), plays an active role in the lives of contemporary Samburu.

In contemporary Poland, the word " Sarmatian " ( Polish: Sarmata-when used as noun, sarmacki-when used as adjective ) is a form of ironic self-identification, and is sometimes used as a synonym for the Polish character.

The noun is rarely used in American English to refer to people not connected to the United States.

In English, which has mostly lost the case system, the definite article and noun – " the car " – remain in the same form regardless of the grammatical role played by the words.

There is a noun use in US English, meaning " a chemical agent used in lethal injections "?

His General Introduction says " There are no ' verbs ' in Basic English ", with the underlying assumption that, as noun use in English is very straightforward but verb use / conjugation is not, the elimination of verbs would be a welcome simplification.

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.

According to IUPAC, chemical elements are not proper nouns in English ; consequently, the full name of an element is not routinely capitalized in English, even if derived from a proper noun, as in californium and einsteinium.

The verbal noun curling is formed from the Scots ( and English ) verb curl, which describes the motion of the stone.

The English noun commonwealth in the sense meaning " public welfare ; general good or advantage " dates from the 15th century.

Cannon serves both as the singular and plural of the noun, although in American English the plural cannons is more common.

The word " demiurge " is an English word from a Latinized form of the Greek, dēmiourgos, literally " public worker ", and which was originally a common noun meaning " craftsman " or " artisan ", but gradually it came to mean " producer " and eventually " creator ".

The English noun fellatio comes from, which in Latin is the past participle of the verb, meaning to suck.

His agnomen Cunctator ( akin to the English noun cunctation ) means " delayer " in Latin, and refers to his tactics in deploying the troops during the Second Punic War.

English, for example, uses prepositions like " of " or " with " in front of a noun to indicate functions which in Ancient Greek or Latin would be indicated by changing ( declining ) the ending of the noun itself.

This derogatory form of the noun " hack " derives from the everyday English sense " to cut or shape by or as if by crude or ruthless strokes " and is even used among users of the positive sense of " hacker " who produces " cool " or " neat " hacks.

The noun ruach, much like the English word breath, can mean either wind or some invisible moving force.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the noun derives from a verb to kilt, originally meaning " to gird up ; to tuck up ( the skirts ) round the body ", which is apparently of Scandinavian origin.

Observare is a synonym for diligere ; despite the cognate with English, this verb and its corresponding noun, observantia, often denote " esteem " or " affection.

In a declined language, the morphology of the article or noun changes in some way according to the grammatical role played by the noun in a given sentence.

In linguistics, ablative case ( abbreviated ) is a cases ( noun inflections ) in various languages whose common characteristic is that inter alia they mark motion away from something, though the details in each language may differ.

In his work, Meinhof looked at noun classes with all Bantu languages having at least 10 classes and with 22 classes of nouns existing throughout the Bantu languages, though his definition of noun class differs slightly from the accepted one, considering the plural form of a word as belonging to a different class from the singular form ( thus leading, for example, to consider a language like French as having four classes instead of two ).

Farsi ( noun ) is the indigenous name for the Persian language.

The adjective derived from this noun, * þiudiskaz, " popular ", was later used with reference to the language of the people in contrast to the Latin language ( earliest recorded example 786 ).

A kenning ( ; derived from Old Norse ) is a type of literary trope, specifically circumlocution, in the form of a compound ( usually two words, often hyphenated ) that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun.

He also often uses linguistic terms for Perl language constructs, so instead of traditional terms such as " variable ", " function ", and " accessor " he sometimes says " noun ", " verb ", and " topicalizer ".

Human language is also unique in having the property of recursivity ; this is the way in which, for example, a noun phrase to contain another noun phrase ( as in "< nowiki >

When noun class is expressed on other parts of speech, besides nouns and pronouns, the language is said to have grammatical gender.

The Dyirbal language is well known for its system of four noun classes, which tend to be divided along the following semantic lines:

The Ngangikurrunggurr language has noun classes reserved for canines, and hunting weapons, and the Anindilyakwa language has a noun class for things that reflect light.

Perhaps the most noun classes in any Australian language are found in

The Andi language has a noun class reserved for insects.

The Fula language has about 26 noun classes ( exact number varies slightly by dialect ).

According to Steven Pinker, the Kivunjo language has 16 noun classes including classes for precise locations and for general locales, classes for clusters or pairs of objects and classes for the objects that come in pairs or clusters, and classes for abstract qualities.

While no single language is known to express all of them, most of them have at least 10 noun classes.

For this reason Ganda linguists use the orthogonal numbering system when discussing Ganda grammar ( other than in the context of Bantu comparative linguistics ), giving the 10 traditional noun classes of that language.

* Orange ( word ), both a noun and an adjective in the English language