Editing Adjective (section)

==Etymology==
{{see also|Part of speech#History|Noun#History}}''Adjective'' comes from [[Latin]] ''{{lang|la|nōmen adjectīvum}}'',<ref>{{L&S|adjectivus|ref}}</ref> a [[calque]] of {{langx|grc|ἐπίθετον ὄνομα (surname)|epítheton ónoma|additional noun}} (whence also English ''[[epithet]]'').<ref>{{LSJ|e)pi/qetos|ἐπίθετος|ref}}</ref><ref>Mastronarde, Donald J. ''Introduction to Attic Greek''. University of California Press, 2013. [https://books.google.com/books?id=qmHsrNYoe4MC&pg=PA60 p. 60].</ref> In the grammatical tradition of Latin and Greek, because adjectives were [[Inflection|inflected]] for gender, number, and case like nouns (a process called [[declension]]), they were considered a type of noun. The words that are today typically called nouns were then called ''[[substantive]] nouns'' ({{Lang|la|nōmen substantīvum}}).<ref name="McMenomy2">McMenomy, Bruce A. ''Syntactical Mechanics: A New Approach to English, Latin, and Greek''. University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. p. 8.</ref> The terms ''noun substantive'' and ''noun adjective'' were formerly used in English but are now obsolete.<ref name="Trask2">{{Cite book |last=Trask |first=R.L. |author-link=Larry Trask |title=A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics |date=2013 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-134-88420-9 |page=188}}</ref>