Adjective: peripheral
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more peripheral |
| Superlative | most peripheral |
Sample Sentences
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We have isolated the gene encoding the Schwann cell glycoprotein P0, the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath. [1988 March 1, “Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein zero”, in Neuron, →DOI, page 73:]
Adjectives inflected like peripheral
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
3. Ancient Greek περί (perí)
4. Ancient Greek περῐ- (perĭ-)
5. Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
6. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
7. Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
8. Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō
9. Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō)
10. Ancient Greek περιφέρω (periphérō)
11. Proto-Indo-European *-os
12. Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
13. Proto-Hellenic *-ēs
14. Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
15. Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs)
16. Ancient Greek περιφερής (peripherḗs)
17. Proto-Indo-European *-is
18. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
19. Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.
20. Ancient Greek -ια (-ia)
21. Ancient Greek περιφέρεια (periphéreia)bor.
22. Latin peripheriabor.
23. Middle French peripheriebor.
24. English peripher(y)
25. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
26. Proto-Indo-European *-is
27. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
28. Proto-Italic *-ālis
29. Latin -ālisbor.
30. Old French -albor.
31. ▲
32. Latin -ālis
33. Old French -elbor.
34. ▲
35. Latin -ālisbor.
36. Middle English -al
37. English -al
38. English peripheral
39. From peripher(y) + -al.
Verbs referencing "peripheral"
Finnish Adjectives
perifeerinen.