adjective

Etymology
From, , from , from , from + , from  +. The Latin word in turn was a calque of, a derivative of the compound verb , from which also comes.

Noun

 * 1)   A word that modifies a noun  or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
 * 2)  A dependent; an accessory.
 * 1)  A dependent; an accessory.
 * 1)  A dependent; an accessory.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:adjective

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, adjektiv
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: نَعْت,
 * Aragonese:
 * Aramaic: גדשניא
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: сифат
 * Basque: adjektibo, izenondo
 * Bavarian:
 * Belarusian: прыме́тнік
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central: panladawan, panmidbid
 * Bishnupriya Manipuri:
 * Breton: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: тэмдэгэй нэрэ
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano:
 * Chechen: билгалдош
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 形容詞
 * Hokkien: 形容詞
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: паллӑ ячӗ
 * Cornish: hanow gwan
 * Corsican: agettivu, ,
 * Crimean Tatar: sıfat
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, egenskabsord, tillægsord
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Erzya: раствал
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian: omadussõna,
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Old French: nons adjectyfs
 * Friulian: agetîv
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ზედსართავი სახელი
 * German:, , , , Beschreibungswort
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐπίθετον, ἐπιθετικόν
 * Greenlandic: pissusilerissut
 * Hausa:
 * Hawaiian: haʻiʻano
 * Hebrew: שם תואר
 * Hindi: बिशेषण,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:tembung kahanan, tembung sipat
 * Kannada:
 * Kashmiri : باوُت
 * Kashubian: przëdownik
 * Kazakh: сын есім
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຄຳຄຸນນາມ
 * Latin: (nōmen) adiectīvum
 * Latvian: ,
 * Limburgish: bievooglik naamwaord
 * Lingala: likonzámí
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Adjektiv
 * Luganda:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: придавка
 * Malay:, kata keadaan,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: marennym
 * Maori: kupuāhua
 * Marathi: विशेषण
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, тэмдэг үг
 * Mongolian: ᠲᠡᠮᠳᠡᠭ ᠨᠡᠷ᠎ᠡ, ᠲᠡᠮᠳᠡᠭ ᠦᠭᠡ
 * Nepali:
 * Norman: adjectif
 * Northern Sami: adjektiiva
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, eigenskapsord, tilleggsord
 * Nynorsk:, eigenskapsord, tilleggsord
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old English: tōġeīecendlīċ
 * Pali: visesana
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Ieejenschoftswuat
 * Polish:, adiektyw
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: sutip rampaqnin
 * Romagnol:
 * Romani:
 * Kalo Finnish Romani: adjektiivos
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: adjectiv
 * Russian: ,
 * Rwanda-Rundi:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: adjective
 * Scottish Gaelic: buadhair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: при́дев,  при́дјев
 * Roman: prídev,
 * Sicilian: aggittivi
 * Sindhi:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: adjektiw
 * Upper Sorbian: adjektiw
 * Southern Altai: јарталгыш
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: adjéktif
 * Swahili: kivumishi,
 * Swedish:, , tilläggsord
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, , นามวิเศษณ์
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:, بِشیشَن
 * Uyghur: سۈپەت
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, hình dung từ
 * Volapük:
 * Võro: umahussyna
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Wolof:
 * Xhosa:
 * Yiddish:
 * Zazaki: ,
 * Zulu:

Adjective

 * 1)  Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
 * 2)  Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
 * 3)  Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
 * 4)  Incapable of independent function.
 * 5) * 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.
 * 1)  Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
 * 2)  Incapable of independent function.
 * 3) * 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.
 * 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.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Galician:
 * Japanese: 非独立性, 依存性
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: דיוני, נוהלי
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:, adjectival
 * Japanese: 手続き上
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese:
 * West Frisian: protokol


 * Catalan:

Verb

 * 1)  To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
 * 2) * 1805,, 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.
 * 1)  To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.
 * 1)  To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.

Translations

 * Finnish: muuntaa adjektiiviksi
 * French:, ,
 * Greek: επιθετοποιώ
 * Italian:
 * Polish: adiektywizować, zadiektywizować
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From.