ornamental
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɔːnəˈmɛntl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɔɹnəˈmɛntl/
Adjective edit
ornamental (comparative more ornamental, superlative most ornamental)
- Serving as an ornament; having no purpose other than to make more beautiful.
- Synonyms: beautifying, embellishing, decorative
- Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
- We shall leave to the reader to determine with what judgment we have chosen the several occasions for inserting those ornamental parts of our work.
- 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 20:
- There were ornamental ponds and shrubs clipped into animal shapes, painted concrete gnomes sitting on mushrooms, pink flamingos standing on one leg[.]
- (of a plant, fish, etc.) Bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes.
- Those pine trees on the lawn are the fastest-growing ornamentals we could find.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
serving to ornament
|
bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes
Noun edit
ornamental (plural ornamentals)
- An ornamental plant.
- 1991 October 10, Jackson Granholm, “In praise of the tumbleweed”, in News Chronicle, Thousand Oaks, Calif., page B-7, column 3:
- The tumbleweed is a gracious gift from the Russians, having been imported as a favored ornamental from the steppes of central Asia.
Translations edit
plant serving to ornament
|
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [ur.nə.mənˈtal]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [or.nə.mənˈtal]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [oɾ.na.menˈtal]
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective edit
ornamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural ornamentals)
Further reading edit
- “ornamental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “ornamental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “ornamental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “ornamental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais)
Further reading edit
- “ornamental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From ornamento (“ornament”) + -al (“of or relating to”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ornemental.
Adjective edit
ornamental m or n (feminine singular ornamentală, masculine plural ornamentali, feminine and neuter plural ornamentale)
Declension edit
Declension of ornamental
singular | plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | ornamental | ornamentală | ornamentali | ornamentale | ||
definite | ornamentalul | ornamentala | ornamentalii | ornamentalele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | ornamental | ornamentale | ornamentali | ornamentale | ||
definite | ornamentalului | ornamentalei | ornamentalilor | ornamentalelor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
ornamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural ornamentales)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “ornamental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014