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This is a list of adjectives, formed from names, which mean "pertaining to " or reference a particular attribute of a bearer of the name.
English, German and French : first names or mononyms
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| Achilles : Achillean |
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| Adam : Adamic, Adamical, Adamite (primordial) |
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| Adonis : Adonean, Adonic (exceptionally handsome) |
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| Aglaia : Aglaian (rare: beautiful and graceful) |
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| Agnes : Agnesian (rare) |
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| Ahab : Ahabian (tyrannically monomaniacal) |
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| Alexander : Alexandrine |
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| Alexandra : Alexandran |
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| Althea : Althean |
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| Anastasia : Anastasian |
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| Anselm : Anselmian |
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| Antaeus : Antaean (exceptionally strong) |
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| Antony (Anthony), Antonius : Antonine |
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| Apicius : Apician (of food or people: (eating only what is) choice) |
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| Apollo : Apollonian (clear, harmonious, restrained) |
Apollon, Apoll : apollinisch (clear, beautiful, harmonius, rational) |
Apollon : apollinien
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| Apollonius : Apollonian |
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| Appius : Appian |
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| Archilochus : Archilochian |
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| Archimedes : Archimedean |
Archimedes : archimedisch |
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| Ariadne : Ariadnean |
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| Aristarch : Aristarchian (exceptionally critical) |
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| Aristotle : Aristotelean, Aristotelian |
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| Arthur : Arthurian |
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| Artemis : Artemisian (natural; chaste) |
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| Athanasius : Athanasian (obsolete: sexually loose) |
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| Atlas : Atlantean (exceptionally strong; of the celestial spheres carried by Atlas), Atlantic |
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| Augustus : Augustan (of any classical literary period), Augustine |
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| Augustine : Augustinian, Augustine(?) |
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| Jocasta : Jocastan (incestuous) |
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| Ophelia : Ophelian (frantic; tragically insane) |
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| Prometheus : Promethean (boldly inventive, defiantly creative; extraordinarily strong) |
Prometheus : prometheisch (extraordinarily large or strong) |
Prométhée : prométhéen
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| Victoria : Victorian (prudish, like people in Victoria's time; of architecture: massive and highly ornamented) |
Viktoria : viktorianisch |
Victoria : victorien
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English, German and French : last names
Sonderfälle
These are mostly nouns which have two meanings, only one of which is a name but only the other of which has an associated adjective.
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| Alexandria : Alexandrian (only of the place ‘Alexandria’) |
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| (Andrea,) Andreas : Andrean (chiefly of the ‘San Andreas Fault’) |
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| August : (could use the same forms as Augustus, or perhaps August) |
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| Florence : Florentine (only of the place ‘Florence’) |
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| Georgia : Georgian (only of the place ‘Georgia’) |
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| Hermione : Hermionic (only of the tribe ‘the Hermiones’) |
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| Lydia : Lydian (only of the place ‘Lydia’) |
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| Sibyl : (sibyl :) Sibylline (double-l; prophetic, divinatory; having secret meaning) |
Sibylle : sibyllinisch (mysterious, enigmatic; prophetic), sibyllisch (rarer synonym) |
Sibylle : (sibylle :) sibyllin (mysterious, obscure, difficult to comprehend)
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These are names which derive from common nouns which have associated adjectives.
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| Angel : (angel :) angelic |
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| April : Aprillian (possibly too rare to meet CFI) |
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| Autumn : (autumn :) autumnal |
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| Bliss : (bliss :) blissful |
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| Crystal : (crystal :) crystalline |
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sandbox
Arian
Arminian
Category:English eponyms
Category:English male given names, Category:English female given names
Appendix:Archetypal names