adminicular

English

Etymology

From Latin adminiculō (“to prop up, support”) + -ar.

Adjective

adminicular (comparative more adminicular, superlative most adminicular)

  1. (obsolete) Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory.
    Synonym: adminiculary
    • 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Records of a Family of Engineers:
      He came: he found the islanders beside themselves at this unwelcome resurrection of the dead and the detested; he was shown, as adminicular of testimony

Translations

References
  • adminicular in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • adminicular in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.d͡ʒi.mi.ni.kuˈlaʁ/ [a.d͡ʒi.mi.ni.kuˈlah], /ad͡ʒ.mi.ni.kuˈlaʁ/ [ad͡ʒ.mi.ni.kuˈlah]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /a.d͡ʒi.mi.ni.kuˈlaɾ/, /ad͡ʒ.mi.ni.kuˈlaɾ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.d͡ʒi.mi.ni.kuˈlaʁ/ [a.d͡ʒi.mi.ni.kuˈlaχ], /ad͡ʒ.mi.ni.kuˈlaʁ/ [ad͡ʒ.mi.ni.kuˈlaχ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ad͡ʒ.mi.ni.kuˈlaɻ/, /a.d͡ʒi.mi.ni.kuˈlaɻ/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.dmi.ni.kuˈlaɾ/ [ɐ.ðmi.ni.kuˈlaɾ]

Adjective

adminicular m or f (plural adminiculares)

  1. adminicular (supplying help; corroborative; explanatory)
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