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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 | ||
Adam : Adamic, Adamical, Adamite (primordial) | ||
Adonis : Adonean, Adonic (exceptionally handsome) | ||
Aglaia : Aglaian (rare: beautiful and graceful) | ||
Agnes : Agnesian (rare) | ||
Ahab : Ahabian (tyrannically monomaniacal) | ||
Alexander : Alexandrine | ||
Alexandra : Alexandran | ||
Althea : Althean | ||
Anastasia : Anastasian | ||
Anselm : Anselmian | ||
Antaeus : Antaean (exceptionally strong) | ||
Antony (Anthony), Antonius : Antonine | ||
Apicius : Apician (of food or people: (eating only what is) choice) | ||
Apollo : Apollonian (clear, harmonious, restrained) | Apollon, Apoll : apollinisch (clear, beautiful, harmonius, rational) | Apollon : apollinien |
Apollonius : Apollonian | ||
Appius : Appian | ||
Archilochus : Archilochian | ||
Archimedes : Archimedean | Archimedes : archimedisch | |
Ariadne : Ariadnean | ||
Aristarch : Aristarchian (exceptionally critical) | ||
Aristotle : Aristotelean, Aristotelian | ||
Arthur : Arthurian | ||
Artemis : Artemisian (natural; chaste) | ||
Athanasius : Athanasian (obsolete: sexually loose) | ||
Atlas : Atlantean (exceptionally strong; of the celestial spheres carried by Atlas), Atlantic | ||
Augustus : Augustan (of any classical literary period), Augustine | ||
Augustine : Augustinian, Augustine(?) |
B
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C
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Cassandra : Cassandran, Cassandraic (prophesying doom) | ||
Cleopatra : Cleopatran (commandingly beautiful) | ||
Cynthia : Cynthian |
D
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Daphne : Daphnean (obsolete: marked by licentiousness), Daphnian | ||
Dionysius : Dionysian (wild, irrational, unrestrained) | Dionysos : dionysisch (wild) | Dionysos : dionysiaque |
E
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Elizabeth : Elizabethan | Elisabeth : elisabethanisch | Élisabeth : élisabéthain |
Epicurus : Epicurean (devoted to sensual pleasure, especially good food) |
F
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Frederick, Fredrick : Frederician | Friedrich : friderizianisch |
G
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H
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Hercules : Herculean (extraordinarily strong; extraordinarily difficult) | Herakles, Herkules : herakleisch, herkulisch | Hercule : herculéen (extraordinarily strong) |
I
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J
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Jocasta : Jocastan (incestuous) |
K
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L
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M
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N
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Nicholas : Nicholine |
O
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Ophelia : Ophelian (frantic; tragically insane) |
P
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Prometheus : Promethean (boldly inventive, defiantly creative; extraordinarily strong) | Prometheus : prometheisch (extraordinarily large or strong) | Prométhée : prométhéen |
Q
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R
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S
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T
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Thomas : Thomasine |
U
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V
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Victoria : Victorian (prudish, like people in Victoria's time; of architecture: massive and highly ornamented) | Viktoria : viktorianisch | Victoria : victorien |
W
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X
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Y
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Z
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English, German and French : last names
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Joseph Addison : Addisonian | ||
Theodor Adorno : Adornoan, Adornoian | ||
Louis Althusser : Althusserian | ||
Thomas Aquinas : Aquinian | ||
John Arbuthnot : Arbuthnotian | ||
Hannah Arendt : Arendtian | ||
Matthew Arnold : Arnoldian | ||
Emil Artin : Artinian | ||
Elias Ashmole : Ashmolean | ||
Isaac Asimov : Asimovian | ||
Margaret Atwood : Atwoodian | ||
Jane Austen : Austenite (adj? or only a noun?) | ||
Joseph Goebbels : Goebbelsian |
Sonderfälle
[edit]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.
English | German | French |
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Alexandria : Alexandrian (only of the place ‘Alexandria’) | ||
(Andrea,) Andreas : Andrean (chiefly of the ‘San Andreas Fault’) | ||
August : (could use the same forms as Augustus, or perhaps August) | ||
Florence : Florentine (only of the place ‘Florence’) | ||
Georgia : Georgian (only of the place ‘Georgia’) | ||
Hermione : Hermionic (only of the tribe ‘the Hermiones’) | ||
Lydia : Lydian (only of the place ‘Lydia’) | ||
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) |
These are names which derive from common nouns which have associated adjectives.
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Angel : (angel :) angelic | ||
April : Aprillian (possibly too rare to meet CFI) | ||
Autumn : (autumn :) autumnal | ||
Bliss : (bliss :) blissful | ||
Crystal : (crystal :) crystalline |
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[edit]Arian Arminian
Category:English eponyms Category:English male given names, Category:English female given names Appendix:Archetypal names