different between ornamental vs gerbe

English

Etymology

ornament +? -al

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???n??m?ntl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???n??m?ntl/

Adjective

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
2. (of a plant, fish, etc.) Bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes.

Related terms

• ornamentation
• ornamentally

Translations

Noun

ornamental (plural ornamentals)

1. An ornamental plant.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

ornament +? -al

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o?.n?.m?n?tal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ur.n?.m?n?tal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?.na.men?tal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

ornamental (masculine and feminine plural ornamentals)

1. ornamental

Further reading

• “ornamental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ornamental” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ornamental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ornamental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

ornamento +? -al

Adjective

ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais)

1. ornamental

Further reading

• “ornamental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Etymology

ornamento +? -al

Adjective

ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais, comparable)

1. ornamental

Further reading

• “ornamental” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French ornemental

Adjective

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

1. ornamental

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

ornamento +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?namen?tal/, [o?.na.m?n??t?al]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

ornamental (plural ornamentales)

1. ornamental

Related terms

• ornamentación
• ornamentar

Further reading

• “ornamental” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Late 16th century, from French gerbe, from Frankish garba or garbe. Doublet of garb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???b/

Noun

gerbe (plural gerbes)

1. (now obsolete) A (wheat) sheaf.
2. Something resembling a (wheat) sheaf in appearance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (mathematics) An abstract construction in homological algebra and geometry providing a certain type of generalisation for a sheaf.
4. (pyrotechnics) A kind of ornamental firework.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Gebre, Grebe, grebe

French

Etymology

From Middle French gerbe, garbe, from Old French garbe, jarbe, from Frankish *garba, from Proto-Germanic *garb?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b/

Noun

gerbe f (plural gerbes)

1. (agriculture) sheaf (of wheat)
2. spray, bouquet (of flowers)
3. collection, anthology (of pieces of literature)
4. (heraldry) garb
5. (historical) tithe on crops under the Ancien Régime
6. (slang) puke, throw up (vomit)

Descendants

• ? English: gerbe

Verb

gerbe

1. first-person singular present indicative of gerber
2. third-person singular present indicative of gerber
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of gerber
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of gerber
5. second-person singular imperative of gerber

Further reading

• “gerbe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• berge

German

Verb

gerbe

1. inflection of gerben:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative