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An eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called eponyms. [1] Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.
The comparative forms of adjectives are in late Quenya normally expressed by the use of the preposition lá, much as in French plus: [M 11] A (ná) calima lá B. "A is brighter than B." French: A est plus brillant que B. Note that the use of the copula ná, when in the present tense, is optional. Some adjectives are irregular.
Typically, short adjectives (including most single-syllable adjectives that are semantically gradable), adjectives originating in Old English, and short adjectives borrowed from French use the -er and -est suffixes. Adjectives with two syllables vary in whether they can mark degree of comparison through inflectional suffixes or must do so ...
Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
The plurals of the names of fishes either take the ending -s or is the same as the singular. Other nouns that have identical singular and plural forms include: craft (meaning 'vessel'), including aircraft, watercraft, spacecraft, hovercraft (but in the sense of a skill or art, the plural is regular, crafts)
Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French, the Dutch) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g., the adjective Czech does not qualify). Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name.
See the other part of a character's title where "Roman" is used as an adjective (e.g. see "Captain" for "Roman Captain"). See also Citizen, which is Shakespeare's more usual description for unnamed Romans. Similarly, see Plebeians, Senators, Tribunes; Romeo is a title character in Romeo and Juliet.