Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - cardinal
Cardinal
cardinal
n. & adj. --n. 1 (as a title Cardinal) a leading dignitary of the RC Church, one of the college electing the Pope. 2 any small American songbird of the genus Richmondena, the males of which have scarlet plumage. 3 hist. a woman's cloak, orig. of scarlet cloth with a hood. --adj. 1 chief, fundamental; on which something hinges. 2 of deep scarlet (like a cardinal's cassock). Phrases and idioms cardinal-flower the scarlet lobelia. cardinal humour see HUMOUR. cardinal numbers those denoting quantity (one, two, three, etc.), as opposed to ordinal numbers (first, second, third, etc.). cardinal points the four main points of the compass (N., S., E., W.). cardinal virtues the chief moral attributes: justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude. Derivatives cardinalate n. (in sense 1 of n.). cardinally adv. cardinalship n. (in sense 1 of n.). Etymology: ME f. OF f. L cardinalis f. cardo -inis hinge: in Eng. first applied to the four virtues on which conduct 'hinges'
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin ~is, from Late Latin ~is, adjective Date: 12th century a high ecclesiastical official of the Roman Catholic Church who ranks next below the pope and is appointed by him to assist him as a member of the college of ~s, ~ number, a crested finch (Cardinalis ~is of the family Cardinalidae) of the eastern United States and adjacent Canada, the southwestern U.S., and Mexico to Belize which has a black face and heavy red bill in both sexes and is nearly completely red in the male, ~ship noun II. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin ~is, from Latin, serving as a hinge, from cardin-, cardo hinge Date: 14th century of basic importance ; main, chief, primary , very serious or grave , see: essential ~ly adverb ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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