Adjective: adulte
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | adulte |
| Singular f. | adulte |
| Plural m. | adultes |
| Plural f. | adultes |
Sample Sentences
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Jésus fut circoncis à huit jours, et baptisé étant adulte, selon la coutume de plusieurs Juifs, qui regardaient le baptême comme une purification des souillures de l'âme: c'était un ancien usage des peuples de l'Indus et du Gange, à qui les brachmanes avaient fait accroire que l'eau lave les péchés comme les vêtements. (Jesus was circumcised when he was eight days old and baptised as an adult, in accordance with the custom of a few Jews who looked upon baptism as the cleansing of the soul's stains. This was an old custom of the peoples of the Indus and the Ganges who had been convinced by the Brahmans that water washes sins like it washes clothes.) [1762, Voltaire, Extraits des sentiments de Jean Meslier:]
Adjectives inflected like adulte
emblématique,
antipianistique,
vanadique,
électrolysable,
sébacique,
aponévrotique,
fétichiste,
chromosomique,
archéographique,
fiduciaire,
judiciaire,
accusable,
monomyaire,
ontogénétique,
cinématique,
technétronique,
mélangeable,
neuropathique,
neurologique,
panchronique, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect participle of adolēscō (“to grow up”) (the present participle of which - adolēscens (“growing up”) - gave French adolescent). See: French Adjectives '
adolescent'.
Verbs referencing "adulte"
English Adjectives
adult, Romanian Adjectives
adult.
Translations