different between adjective vs adnoun

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French adjectif, from Latin adiectivus, from adici? + -?vus, from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iaci? (“throw”). The Latin word adiectivus in turn was a calque of Ancient Greek ?????????? (epithetikón, “added”), a derivative of the compound verb ????????? (epitíth?mi), from which also comes epithet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.d???k.t?v/, /?æ.d???k.t?v/, /?æ.d???k.t?v/

Noun

adjective (plural adjectives)

1. (grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
2. (obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
   • 1648, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest

     it must be an adjective of dain

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:adjective

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Translations

Adjective

adjective (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
   • 1899, John Jay Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays, AMS Press (1969) (as reproduced in Project Gutenberg)

     In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.

   Synonyms: dependent, derivative

2. (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.

   Synonym: adjectival

3. (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.

   Synonym: procedural

   Antonym: substantive

4. (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

   Antonym: substantive

Translations

Verb

adjective (third-person singular simple present adjectives, present participle adjectiving, simple past and past participle adjectived)

1. (transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
   • 1805, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley Part 2

     Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has […] adjectived all three.
2. (transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d??k.tiv/

Adjective

adjective

1. feminine singular of adjectif

Latin

Adjective

adject?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of adject?vus

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ad.?ek?ti.ve]

Noun

adjective

1. plural of adjectiv

Scots

Etymology

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From Latin (nomen) adjectivum.

Noun

adjective (plural adjectives)

1. (grammar) adjective

English

Etymology

From Latin ad + English noun

Noun

adnoun (plural adnouns)

1. (grammar) an adjective used as a noun (sensu stricto), an absolute adjective
2. (grammar, dated) an adjective
   • 1830, Thomas Nugent & J. Quiseau, A new Pocket Dictionary of the French and English Languages. In two Parts. 1. French and English.—2. English and French. Containing all the Words in general Use, and authorized by the best Writers. The Fifth American, from the last London Edition, Philadelphia, p.xii ("Section II: Of Grammar in general)"):

     3. An adjective or adnoun, expresses a particular quality ascribed to a substantive—A good man, a bad man, a studious man, a lazy man—The words good, bad, studious, and lazy, express the particular quality which belong to such or such a man.

Synonyms

• (adjective): adjective, adjective noun, noun adjective

Related terms

• adnominal

Anagrams

• nandou, unadon