supplementary

English

Etymology

Derived from French supplémentaire.

Adjective

supplementary (comparative more supplementary, superlative most supplementary)

1. Additional; added to supply what is wanted.

Derived terms

• nonsupplementary
• presupplementary
• supplementary angles
• supplementary character
• supplementary plane

Translations

additional

• Arabic: إِضَافِيّ (ʔiḍāfiyy)
• Bulgarian: допълнителен (bg) (dopǎlnitelen)
• Catalan: suplementari
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 补充的 (zh) (bǔchōng de), 追加的 (zh) (zhuījiā de)

• Czech: dodatečný (cs)
• Dutch: aanvullend (nl)
• Esperanto: aldona
• Finnish: täydentävä (fi), lisä- (fi), täydennys-
• French: supplémentaire (fr)
• German: zusätzlich (de)
• Hungarian: kiegészítő (hu)
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• Italian: supplementare (it), addizionale (it)
• Japanese: 補足の (ja) (ほそくの, hosoku no)
• Low German: bito
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: supplerende

• Portuguese: suplementar (pt), adicional (pt)
• Russian: доба́вочный (ru) (dobávočnyj), дополни́тельный (ru) (dopolnítelʹnyj)
• Spanish: suplementario
• Swedish: extra (sv)
• Turkish: bütünleyici (tr), ilave (tr), tamamlayıcı (tr)

Noun

supplementary (plural supplementaries)

1. Something additional; an extra.

References

• supplementary in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.