COLLATERAL ADJECTIVES of LATIN ORIGIN

                                            

These words are collateral adjectives of Latin origin. These words are not etymologically related to their associated noun forms but are linked semantically.

NOUNS                 ADJECTIVES

Ape        –              simian

Body      –              corporal

Blood    –              sanguine

Boy        –              puerile

Brain     –              cerebral

Brother  –              fraternal

Burden –              onerous

Cat         –              feline

City        –              civic

Cow       –              vaccine

Country  –              rural

Child     –              puerile

Cloud    –              nebular

Cruelty –              atrocious

Dog        –              canine

Daughter-           filial

Day        –              diurnal

Death    –              mortal

Ear          –              Auricular

Earth     –              terrestrial

East        –              oriental

Egg         –              oval

End        –              final

Eye         –              ocular

Father   –              paternal

Female –              feminine

Flesh     –              carnal

Flock     –              gregarious

Fear       –              timorous

Flower  –              floral

Foot       –              pedestrial

Fire        –              igneous

Friend   –              amicable

Fox         –              vulpine

Frost      –              glacial

Gallant –              chivalrous

Greed   –              avarice

God        –              divine

Gospel  –              Evangelical

Hand     –              manual

Hearing –              audible

Heart     –              cordial

Horse    –              equine

Heaven  –              celestial

Hell        –              infernal

Home    –              domestic

Husband –           conjugal

Iron        –              ferrous

King       –              regal/royal

Kind       –              generic

Knight-rider –    equestrian

Law        –              legal

Life        –              vital

Light      –              lucid

Lion       –              leonine

Lip          –              labial

Lunar     –              moon

Male      –              masculine

Milk       –              lacteal

Mankind –           human

Mouth  –              oral

Marriage –           nuptial

Mind     –              mental

Money  –              pecuniary

Moon    –              lunar

Mother –              maternal

Night     –              nocturnal

Name    –              nominal

Nose     –              nasal

Ox          –              bovine

Plot        –              local

Place     –              local

Point     –              punctual

Poverty –              impecunious

Punishment –    penal

Ray         –              radiant

Root      –              radical

Rule       –              regular

Salt        –              saline

Ship       –              naval

Sea         –              marine

Sky         –              ethereal

Sheep   –              ovine

Spring   –              vernal

Shepherd –         pastoral

Sun        –              solar

Side       –              lateral

Son        –              filial

Sight      –              visible

Stream –              fluvial

Skin       –              cutaneous

Tongue –              lingual

Tooth    –              dental

Tree       –              arboreal

Town     –              urban

Twilight  –              crepuscular

Village  –              rural

Wife      –              conjugal

War        –              bellicose

Water   –              aqueous/ aquatic

Wheel  –              rotatory

Will        –              voluntary

Womb  –              uterine

Woman  –              feminine/ effeminate

World   –              mundane

West     –              occidental

Wood    –              sylvan

Word     –              verbal

Year       –              annual

Youth    –              juvenile

Sources: New Madhyamik Grammar and Composition / Merriam Webster Thesaurus

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