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ornamental

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Etymology

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From ornament +‎ -al.

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ornamental (comparative more ornamental, superlative most ornamental)

  1. Serving as an ornament; having no purpose other than to make more beautiful.
    Synonyms: beautifying, embellishing, decorative
    Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
      We shall leave to the reader to determine with what judgment we have chosen the several occasions for inserting those ornamental parts of our work.
    • 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 20:
      There were ornamental ponds and shrubs clipped into animal shapes, painted concrete gnomes sitting on mushrooms, pink flamingos standing on one leg[.]
  2. (of a plant, fish, etc.) Bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes.
    Those pine trees on the lawn are the fastest-growing ornamentals we could find.
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Noun

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ornamental (plural ornamentals)

  1. An ornamental plant.
    • 1991 October 10, Jackson Granholm, “In praise of the tumbleweed”, in News Chronicle, Thousand Oaks, Calif., page B-7, column 3:
      The tumbleweed is a gracious gift from the Russians, having been imported as a favored ornamental from the steppes of central Asia.

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Etymology

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From ornament +‎ -al.

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ornamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural ornamentals)

  1. ornamental

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Galician

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Etymology

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From ornamento +‎ -al.

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ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais)

  1. ornamental

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From ornamento (“ornament”) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

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  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈtal/ [ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈtaɫ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈta.li/

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: or‧na‧men‧tal

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ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais)

  1. ornamental

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French ornemental. By surface analysis, ornament +‎ -al.

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ornamental m or n (feminine singular ornamentală, masculine plural ornamentali, feminine and neuter plural ornamentale)

  1. ornamental

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite ornamental ornamentală ornamentali ornamentale
definite ornamentalul ornamentala ornamentalii ornamentalele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite ornamental ornamentale ornamentali ornamentale
definite ornamentalului ornamentalei ornamentalilor ornamentalelor

Spanish

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Etymology

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From ornamento +‎ -al.

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  • IPA(key): /oɾnamenˈtal/ [oɾ.na.mẽn̪ˈt̪al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: or‧na‧men‧tal

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ornamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural ornamentales)

  1. ornamental

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Swedish

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ornamental (not comparable)

  1. ornamental

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Inflection of ornamental
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular ornamental — —
neuter singular ornamentalt — —
plural ornamentala — —
masculine plural2 ornamentale — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 ornamentale — —
all ornamentala — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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