Noun: adjacent
| Singular | adjacent |
| Plural | adjacents |
Sample Sentences
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Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents. [1980, Faber Birren, The textile colorist:]
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Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse[…] [2011, Mark Zegarelli, ACT Math For Dummies, page 194:]
Nouns inflected like adjacent
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
3. Proto-Italic *ad
4. Proto-Italic *ad-
5. Latin ad-
6. Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-kt
8. Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder.
9. Latin iaciō
10. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
12. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
13. Proto-Italic *-ēō
14. Latin -eō
15. Latin iaceō
16. Latin adiaceō
17. Latin adiacēnsder.
18. English adjacent
19. Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“to lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“to lie down”). See: Latin Nouns '
adiacēns'.