Noun: elementary
| Singular | elementary |
| Plural | elementaries |
Sample Sentences
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At Lakeside Elementary I learned to appreciate the forest.
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He was my dentist. My mom took me to him back in elementary and junior high. [2011 May 3, Lee Livingston, “Cleveland – Summer of 1962”, in In the Rearview Mirror: A Road Trip into the Heart of Another Country – America 1961, Carthay Press, →ISBN, page 146:]
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The demon (or elementary) of the South-West wind was particularly dreaded, as being the gini of fever and madness. [1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 45:]
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[…] the spiritual man is either translated like Enoch and Elias to the higher state, or falls down lower than an elementary again […] [2003, H P Blavatsky, The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky, volume 1:]
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But, in Africa these became definite in their Egyptian Types, by means of which we can follow their development from the elementaries of Chaos and Space into Celestial Intelligencers […] [2007, Gerald Massey, The Natural Genesis, page 332:]
Nouns inflected like elementary
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English elementare, from Latin elementārius (“elementary”), from elementum (“one of the four elements of antiquity; fundamentals”) + -ārius (adjective-forming suffix). Cognate with French élémentaire. By surface analysis, element + -ary. See: Middle English Nouns '
elementare', Latin Nouns '
elementārius', French Nouns '
élémentaire'.