This is a list of adjectives, formed from names, which mean "pertaining to [bearers of the name]" or reference a particular attribute of a bearer of the name.
English, German and French : first names or mononyms
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Achilles : Achillean |
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Adam : Adamic, Adamical, Adamite (primordial) |
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Adonis : Adonean, Adonic (exceptionally handsome) |
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Aglaia : Aglaian (rare: beautiful and graceful) |
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Agnes : Agnesian (rare) |
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Ahab : Ahabian (tyrannically monomaniacal) |
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Alexander : Alexandrine |
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Alexandra : Alexandran |
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Althea : Althean |
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Anastasia : Anastasian |
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Anselm : Anselmian |
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Antaeus : Antaean (exceptionally strong) |
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Antony (Anthony), Antonius : Antonine |
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Apicius : Apician (of food or people: (eating only what is) choice) |
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Apollo : Apollonian (clear, harmonious, restrained) |
Apollon, Apoll : apollinisch (clear, beautiful, harmonius, rational) |
Apollon : apollinien
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Apollonius : Apollonian |
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Appius : Appian |
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Archilochus : Archilochian |
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Archimedes : Archimedean |
Archimedes : archimedisch |
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Ariadne : Ariadnean |
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Aristarch : Aristarchian (exceptionally critical) |
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Aristotle : Aristotelean, Aristotelian |
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Arthur : Arthurian |
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Artemis : Artemisian (natural; chaste) |
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Athanasius : Athanasian (obsolete: sexually loose) |
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Atlas : Atlantean (exceptionally strong; of the celestial spheres carried by Atlas), Atlantic |
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Augustus : Augustan (of any classical literary period), Augustine |
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Augustine : Augustinian, Augustine(?) |
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Jocasta : Jocastan (incestuous) |
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Ophelia : Ophelian (frantic; tragically insane) |
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Prometheus : Promethean (boldly inventive, defiantly creative; extraordinarily strong) |
Prometheus : prometheisch (extraordinarily large or strong) |
Prométhée : prométhéen
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Victoria : Victorian (prudish, like people in Victoria's time; of architecture: massive and highly ornamented) |
Viktoria : viktorianisch |
Victoria : victorien
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English, German and French : last names
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These are mostly nouns which have two meanings, only one of which is a name but only the other of which has an associated adjective.
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Alexandria : Alexandrian (only of the place ‘Alexandria’) |
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(Andrea,) Andreas : Andrean (chiefly of the ‘San Andreas Fault’) |
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August : (could use the same forms as Augustus, or perhaps August) |
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Florence : Florentine (only of the place ‘Florence’) |
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Georgia : Georgian (only of the place ‘Georgia’) |
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Hermione : Hermionic (only of the tribe ‘the Hermiones’) |
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Lydia : Lydian (only of the place ‘Lydia’) |
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Sibyl : (sibyl :) Sibylline (double-l; prophetic, divinatory; having secret meaning) |
Sibylle : sibyllinisch (mysterious, enigmatic; prophetic), sibyllisch (rarer synonym) |
Sibylle : (sibylle :) sibyllin (mysterious, obscure, difficult to comprehend)
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These are names which derive from common nouns which have associated adjectives.
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Angel : (angel :) angelic |
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April : Aprillian (possibly too rare to meet CFI) |
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Autumn : (autumn :) autumnal |
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Bliss : (bliss :) blissful |
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Crystal : (crystal :) crystalline |
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