adjective
英 ['ædʒɪktɪv]
美 ['ædʒɪktɪv]
英語の語源
- adjective
- late 14c., as an adjective, "adjectival," in noun adjective, from Old French adjectif (14c.), from Latin adjectivum "that is added to (the noun)," neuter of adjectivus "added," from past participle of adicere "to throw or place (a thing) near," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + comb. form of iacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)). Also as a noun from late 14c. In 19c. Britain, the word itself often was a euphemism for the taboo adjective bloody.
They ... slept until it was cool enough to go out with their 'Towny,' whose vocabulary contained less than six hundred words, and the Adjective. [Kipling, "Soldiers Three," 1888]
例文
- 1. a morphosyntactic rule of adjective agreement
- 形容詞一致に関する形態構文規則
- 2.In "the black cat "the adjective "black "modifies the noun "cat ".
- the black catというフレーズでは、形容詞black修飾名詞cat.
- 3.'My 'is a possessive adjective .
- myは所有格形容詞.
- 4.An attributive noun functions as an adjective .
- 定語性名詞が形容詞として機能する.
- 5.Rather wishing his modest adjective away，Mr.Lorry replied，'No，no，no.
- ローリーさんはその丁寧な形容詞を回収しようとして、「いいえ、いいえ、いいえ、いいえ