köken: From 逸 (ichi-, “very”) + 著し (shirushi, “clear, obvious, conspicuous”, a ku-adjective). Attested in the Heian period as a ku-adjective pronounced いちしるし (ichishirushi). Since the Muromachi period, it became pronounced いちじるし (ichijirushi), where the shirushi changes to jirushi as an instance of rendaku (連濁). Since around the Edo period, it changed conjugation class and became a shiku-adjective. The…
çekim: karşılaştırma īnsignior · üstünlük īnsignissimus
köken: From in- (“within”) + signum (“a sign, an emblem”) + -is (adjective-forming suffix) so formed because the subject qualified by this adjective has been revealed, specifically by means of a sign, to be exceptional relative to ordinary examples of its kind.
aile: īnsigne, īnsigniō, īnsigniter
, Cicero Ad Quintum Fratrem Dialogi Tres: De Oratore, Libri Tres 237
, Cicero De Oratore, Libri Tres 244
, Cicero Laelius sive De Amicitia Dialogus ...insignis virtus Scipionis...
great, excellent, outstanding, brilliant (having great, above average capacity, skill) · great, excellent, outstanding (above average in quality, importance, significance)
çekim: karşılaştırma izcilāks · üstünlük visizcilākais
eş: lielisks, teicams
köken: Originally the past participle of a verb *izcilt, from cilt (“to rise”), still attested dialectally (cf. celties “to rise” from transitive celt “to raise”). The original meaning was thus “raised, risen (above others)” > “outstanding.”
aile: izcilnieks, izcilniece, izcilība
izcils zinātnieks
izcils sportists
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