Adjective: communal
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more communal |
| Superlative | most communal |
Sample Sentences
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communal violence
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communal politics
Adjectives inflected like communal
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *mey-
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱom-moy-ni-s
4. Proto-Italic *kommoinis
5. Old Latin comoinis
6. Latin commūnis
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-is
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
10. Proto-Italic *-ālis
11. Latin -ālis
12. Late Latin commūnālislbor.
13. French communalbor.
14. English communal
15. Borrowed from French communal, from Late Latin commūnālis, from Latin commūnis. Doublet of cominal. See: French Adjectives '
communal', Latin Adjectives '
commūnis'.