adequate
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *aikʷos Latin aiquos Latin aequus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti 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.
- learned borrowing from adaequātus
Definitions
Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
- powers adequate to a great work
- an adequate definition
A sufficient amount of
A sufficient amount of; enough.
- We have adequate money for the journey.
To equalize
To equalize; to make adequate.
- Let me giue yet one instance more, of a truly intellectuall obiect, exactly adequated and proportioned vnto the intellectuall appetite.
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To 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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at adequate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at adequate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at adequate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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