adequate

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Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.

adjectif

1
Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
powers adequate to a great work
an adequate definition
Proportion therefore your Clothes to your bodies, and let them be proper for your persons. […] Agreeableness […] ought to be exact, and adequate both to age, person and condition, avoiding extremities on both sides, being neither too much out, nor in the fashions.
Her legal allowance was not adequate to her fortune, nor sufficient for her comfortable maintenance […]

Étymologie

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *aikʷos? Old Latin aiquos Latin aequus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin aequō Latin adaequō Latin adaequātuslbor. English adequate Learned borrowing from Latin adaequātus, perfect passive participle of adaequō (“to make equal to”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from ad (“to, towards, at”) + aequō (“to make equal, equalize”), from aequus (“equal”). Cognate with French adéquat. By surface analysis, ad- + equate.

déterminant

1
A sufficient amount of; enough.
We have adequate money for the journey.

verbe

1
obsolèteTo equalize; to make adequate.
Let me giue yet one instance more, of a truly intellectuall obiect, exactly adequated and proportioned vnto the intellectuall appetite.
2
obsolèteTo equal.
[…] though it be an impossibilitie for any creature to adequate God in his eternitie, yet he hath ordained all his sonnes in Christ to partake of it by living with him eternally.

Formes

comparatif: more adequate
superlatif: most adequate
passé: adequated
participe passé: adequated
participe présent: adequating
3ᵉ personne du singulier: adequates

Adelaide · A female given name from the Germanic languages.adele · An infinite sequence consisting of a real number and a p-adic…Adele · A female given name from the Germanic languages.

adequate · Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.

Adi · A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India and Tibet.adieu · Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.adios · goodbye

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