rudimentary – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of rudimentary

Adjective: rudimentary

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore rudimentary
Superlativemost rudimentary

Sample Sentences

  • The state of moral and social feeling, prevalent in legendary Greece, exhibits a scene in harmony with the rudimentary political fabric just described. [1846, George Grote, “State of Society and Manners as Exhibited in Grecian Legend”, in History of Greece, volume II, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, part I (Continuation of Legendary Greece), page 107:]
  • I have only a rudimentary grasp of chemistry.
  • His grasp of rudimentary English allowed him at least to do the shopping.
  • His rudimentary driving skills meant that he was a danger on the road.
  • In these they discarded the barbarous school-books then in use, put the rudimentary study of the languages on a better footing, devoted themselves, for the sake of religion, to those accomplishments which religion had hitherto disdained; […] [1837–1839, Henry Hallam, “History of Ancient Literature in Europe, from 1550 to 1600”, in Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, volume II, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, section I (Progress of Classical Learning—[…]), paragraph 25, page 35:]
  • Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he [William Kamkwamba] could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up. [2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2013:]
  • Safdar, in his rudimentary ambulance, has been at the frontline of the shifting conflicts consuming his city, placing himself at huge personal risk for very little money. [2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2017:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Latin rudis
3. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
4. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
5. Proto-Italic *-mentom
6. Latin -mentum
7. Latin rudīmentumbor.
8. Old French rudiment
9. English rudiment
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
11. Proto-Italic *-āzios
12. Latin -āriusder.
13. Middle English -arie
14. English -ary
15. New Latin rudimentariusder.?
16. English rudimentary
17. From rudiment + -ary (adjectival suffix), perhaps after New Latin rudīmentārius, from Classical Latin rudīmentum (“first attempt; beginning”) + -ārius (adjectival suffix). Compare French rudimentaire. See: French Adjectives 'rudimentaire'.

Verbs referencing "rudimentary"

Finnish Adjectives rudimentaarinen.