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Adjektiivi
- Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
- (nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
- Describing a “natural” number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
- Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal’s cassock).
- (astrology) Being one of the signs Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, associated with initiation, creation, and force.
Substantiivi
- (Roman Catholicism) One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope, equal to the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope.
- Any of various species of New-World passerine songbird in the genus Cardinalis, or in the family Cardinalidae more generally, or of similar appearance and once considered to be related to the former; so called because of their red plumage. (See Wikipedia article for taxonomical information.)
- A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)
- (mathematics) Ellipsis of cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., 0, 1, 2, 3). (See Cardinal_number.)
- (grammar) Ellipsis of cardinal numeral, a word used to represent a cardinal number.
- Ellipsis of cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.
- Ellipsis of cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.
- (now historical) A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.
- (obsolete) Mulled red wine.
Esimerkit
- a cardinal rule
- But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.
- the cardinal intersections of the zodiac
- Impudence is now a cardinal virtue.
- a cardinal mark
- This cardinal number is the smallest of the infinite cardinal numbers; it is the one to which Cantor has appropriated the Hebrew aleph with the suffix 0, to distinguish it from larger infinite cardinals. Thus the name of the smallest of infinite cardinals is 0א.
- The commonest numerals in Latin, as in English, are the "cardinals"[...]and the "ordinals".
- His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal, to unlock the secrets of the heart,[...]and cure him by the spell of his music.
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- Where's your cardinal! Make haste.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | cardinals |
| Komparatiivi | more cardinal |
| Superlatiivi | most cardinal |