adjunct
English
Etymology
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ædʒʌŋkt
- Hyphenation: ad‧junct
Noun
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adjunct (plural adjuncts)
- An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
- Synonyms: addition, supplement; see also Thesaurus:adjunct
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare,
This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe
Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii], page 135:
- Learning is but an adiunct to our ſelfe,
And where we are, our Learning likewiſe is.
- A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:associate, Thesaurus:attendant
- 1641, Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert late Earl of Essex and George late Duke of Buckingham:
- Lord Cottington (as an adjunct of singular experience and trust)
- (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
- (dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
- (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
- (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.
- noun adjunct
- Coordinate terms: attribute, predicate
- (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 177:
- We can see from (34) that Determiners are sisters of N-bar and daughters of N-double-bar; Adjuncts are both sisters and daughters of N-bar; and Complements are sisters of N and daughters of N-bar. This means that Adjuncts resemble Complements in that both are daughters of N-bar; but they differ from Complements in that Adjuncts are sisters of N-bar, whereas Complements are sisters of N. Likewise, it means that Adjuncts resemble Determiners in that both are sisters of N-bar, but they differ from Determiners in that Adjuncts are daughters of N-bar, whereas Determiners are daughters of N-double-bar.
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- (rhetoric) Symploce.
- (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
Derived terms
- adjuncthood
- adjunction
- adjunctive
- adjunct professor
- adjunct treatment
- noun adjunct
- numerary adjunct
Translations
appendage
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grammar: dispensable phrase
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Adjective
adjunct (comparative more adjunct, superlative most adjunct)
- Connected in a subordinate function.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii], page 11:
- Though that my death were adiunct to my Act,
By heauen I would doe it.
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- Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Translations
Connected in a subordinate function
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch adjoinct, from Latin adiunctus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑˈdjʏŋkt/, /ɑtˈjʏŋkt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ad‧junct
- Rhymes: -ʏŋkt
Noun
adjunct m (plural adjuncten)
- An adjunct, a subordinate person, esp. an attendant of a government official.
Related terms
- adjunct-directeur
Descendants
- → Indonesian: ajun
Romanian
Etymology
From German Adjunkt or Latin adjunctus.
Adjective
adjunct m or n (feminine singular adjunctă, masculine plural adjuncți, feminine and neuter plural adjuncte)
- deputy
Declension
Declension of adjunct
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| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | adjunct | adjunctă | adjuncți | adjuncte | ||
| definite | adjunctul | adjuncta | adjuncții | adjunctele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | adjunct | adjuncte | adjuncți | adjuncte | ||
| definite | adjunctului | adjunctei | adjuncților | adjunctelor | |||