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cardinal
English
Etymology
From Middle French cardinal, from Latin cardin?lis (“pertaining to a hinge, hence applied to that on which something turns or depends, important, principal, chief”), from card? (“hinge”) + -?lis, adjectival suffix.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??.d?.n?l/, /?k??d.n?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k??d?n?l/, /?k??dn?l/
Adjective
cardinal (comparative more cardinal, superlative most cardinal)
- Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
- 1613, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (play),
- But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.
- a. 1631, Michael Drayton, To my noble friend Mr. William Brown, of the evil time
- Impudence is now a cardinal virtue.
- 1613, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (play),
- (nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
- Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
- Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock).
Translations
Noun
cardinal (plural cardinals)
- (Roman Catholicism) One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)
- Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
- Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- (color) A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)
- (mathematics) Short for cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., zero, one, two, three). (See Wikipedia article on Cardinal number.)
- 1920, Bertrand Russell, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, p.83:
- This cardinal number is the smallest of the infinite cardinal numbers; it is the one to which Cantor has appropriated the Hebrew aleph with the suffix 0, to distinguish it from larger infinite cardinals. Thus the name of the smallest of infinite cardinals is 0?.
- 1920, Bertrand Russell, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, p.83:
- (grammar) Short for cardinal numeral, a word used to represent a cardinal number.
- 2005, Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed. revised, p.97:
- The commonest numerals in Latin, as in English, are the "cardinals" […] and the "ordinals" […].
- 2005, Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed. revised, p.97:
- Short for cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.
- Short for cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.
- (now historical) A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.
- 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, I.3:
- She has valuables of mine; besides, my cardinal and veil are in her room.
- c. 1760, Robert Lloyd, Chit-Chat, an imitation of Theocritus
- Where's your cardinal! Make haste.
- 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, I.3:
- (obsolete) Mulled red wine.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- (woman's cloak; mulled red wine): Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873)
See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
- Contrast with ordinal (numbers)
- Card. (abbreviation)
Anagrams
- Clarinda
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /k??.di?nal/
- (Central) IPA(key): /k?r.di?nal/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ka?.di?nal/
Adjective
cardinal (feminine cardinala, masculine plural cardinals, feminine plural cardinales)
- cardinal
Derived terms
- punt cardinal
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cardin?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka?.di.nal/
Adjective
cardinal (feminine singular cardinale, masculine plural cardinaux, feminine plural cardinales)
- Important; paramount.
- (mathematics) cardinal.
Derived terms
- point cardinal
Noun
cardinal m (plural cardinaux)
- (religion) cardinal.
- Cardinal number.
- Cardinal (bird).
Noun
cardinal m (plural cardinal)
- cardinal (color).
Further reading
- “cardinal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
cardinal m (invariable)
- Apocopic form of cardinale
Anagrams
- calandri
Middle French
Noun
cardinal m (plural cardinauls)
- (Christianity) cardinal.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka?.d??i?naw/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ka?.ði?na?/
- Hyphenation: car?di?nal
Adjective
cardinal m or f (plural cardinais, comparable)
- cardinal (describing a number that indicates quantity)
- Synonym: cardeal
Noun
cardinal m (plural cardinais)
- cardinal (number indicating quantity)
- Synonym: cardeal
- (typography) hash (the # symbol)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French cardinal, Latin cardin?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kar.di?nal/
Adjective
cardinal m or n (feminine singular cardinal?, masculine plural cardinali, feminine and neuter plural cardinale)
- principal, essential, fundamental
Declension
Synonyms
- capital, crucial, decisiv, esen?ial, fundamental
Derived terms
- numeral cardinal
- punct cardinal
- ro?u cardinal, ro?u-cardinal
- virtu?i cardinale
Noun
cardinal m (plural cardinali)
- (religion) cardinal
- cardinal (bird)
- a variety of grape, cultivated for consumption
Declension
Derived terms
- cardinalat
- cardinalist
References
- cardinal in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cardin?lis, cardin?li.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka?di?nal/, [ka?.ð?i?nal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Hyphenation: car?di?nal
Adjective
cardinal (plural cardinales)
- cardinal (crucial, pivotal)
- Synonym: fundamental
- cardinal (describing a number used to indicate quantity)
- Antonym: ordinal
Derived terms
Related terms
- cardenal
Further reading
- “cardinal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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greatest
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???e?t?st/
- Hyphenation: great?est
- Rhymes: -?st
Adjective
greatest
- superlative form of great: most great
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii[1]:
- Caliban: […] I never saw a woman / But only Sycorax, my dam, and she; / But she as far surpasseth Sycorax / As great'st does least.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii[1]:
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