Noun: Pacific
| Singular | Pacific |
| Plural | Pacifics |
Sample Sentences
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Britannia's firebox would appear to have derived from those of the Bulleid Pacifics, which it closely resembles. [1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:]
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These were the first class of tender locomotives with this wheel arrangement in the world, although there is some doubt as to whether the name "Pacific" was given to the type because New Zealand is in the Pacific Ocean or because some similar engines were built a few months later for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. [1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 559:]
Nouns inflected like Pacific
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin pācificus (“peace-making”), so called by Magellan because he sailed peacefully over it after weathering Cape Horn. See: Latin Nouns '
pācificus'.