accidental
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- accidentall (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English accidental, from Anglo-Norman accidentel, Middle French accidentel, accidental, and their source, Late Latin accidēntālis; corresponding to accident + -al.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]accidental (comparative more accidental, superlative most accidental)
- Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary. [from 14th c.]
- Hyponym: instantial
- (philosophy) Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought). [from 14th c.]
- (music) Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature. [from 16th c.]
- Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional. [from 16th c.]
- Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, translation of original in French, III.1:
- The way to trueth is but one and simple, that of particular profit and benefit of affaires a man hath in charge, double, uneven and accidentall [translating fortuite].
- (geometry) Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
Synonyms
[edit]- (not essential): circumstantial, incidental; See also Thesaurus:circumstantial
- (nonessential to something's inherent nature): See also Thesaurus:extrinsic
- (happening by chance): adventitious, casual, contingent, fortuitous, incidental, occasional, serendipitous; See also Thesaurus:accidental
Derived terms
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Noun
[edit]accidental (plural accidentals)
- A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
- 1662, Fuller, Worthies of England:
- He conceived it just that accidentals ... should sink with the substance of the accusation.
- (painting, plural only) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
- (music) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
- Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.
- Coordinate term: substantive
Translations
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Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin accidentālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
[edit]accidental m or f (masculine and feminine plural accidentals)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “accidental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “accidental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “accidental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “accidental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Fala
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]accidental (plural accidentais)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]accidental
- to have an accident
Conjugation
[edit]References
[edit]- Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French accidentel.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]accidental m or n (feminine singular accidentală, masculine plural accidentali, feminine and neuter plural accidentale)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | accidental | accidentală | accidentali | accidentale | ||
definite | accidentalul | accidentala | accidentalii | accidentalele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | accidental | accidentale | accidentali | accidentale | ||
definite | accidentalului | accidentalei | accidentalelor | accidentalilor |
Related terms
[edit]Scots
[edit]Adjective
[edit]accidental (comparative mair accidental, superlative maist accidental)
References
[edit]- Eagle, Andy, editor (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin accidēntālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /aɡθidenˈtal/ [aɣ̞.θi.ð̞ẽn̪ˈt̪al]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aɡsidenˈtal/ [aɣ̞.si.ð̞ẽn̪ˈt̪al]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: ac‧ci‧den‧tal
Adjective
[edit]accidental m or f (masculine and feminine plural accidentales)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]accidental m (plural accidentales)
- (music) accidental
- Synonym: accidente
Further reading
[edit]- “accidental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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