accidental
English
/ˌæk.sɪ.ˈdɛn.tl̩/
adj
Definitions
- Not essential; incidental, secondary.
- (philosophy) Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
- (music) Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
- Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
- Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
- (geometry) Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
Etymology
Borrowed from accidentel derived from Middle French accidentel derived from Latin accidēntālis affix from English accident.
Origin
English
accident
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- accident English
- accidentalism English
- accidentalist English
- accidentality English
- accidentally English
- accidentalness English
- accidentary English
- accidently English
- accidentologist English
- accidentology English
- nonaccident English
- nonaccidental English
- postaccident English
- accidēntālis Latin
- accidentale Italian
- accident French
- accidental Spanish, Castilian
- *ḱh₂d- Proto-Indo-European
- アクシデント Japanese
- accident Old French
- accidental Catalan, Valencian
- accidentel Middle French
- accidentel xno
- akasidan Hausa