adminicular

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

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

• “adminicular”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “adminicular”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Hyphenation: ad‧mi‧ni‧cu‧lar

From adminículo +‎ -ar.

adminicular m or f (plural adminiculares)

1. adminicular (supplying help; corroborative; explanatory)

Same as the 1st etymology.

adminicular (first-person singular present adminiculo, first-person singular preterite adminiculei, past participle adminiculado)

1. (transitive) to administer adminicle; help