adnominaladj.n.

1765 L. Chambaud Art of speaking French iii. iv. 252 The adnominal pronouns are safely used when the term of their relation is expressed before in the same sentence by a noun or pronoun.

1771 Crit. Rev. Oct. 315 Some words which are commonly called adverbs, are distinguished by the name of adverbial comparatives, and others by the title of adnominal comparatives.

1845 J. W. Gibbs Philol. Stud. (1857) 63 This case [sc. the genitive], being in its origin the adnominal case, or case joined to a noun.

1860 J. Hadley Greek Gram. §488 The adjective in the former case [sc. attributive use] is purely adnominal, belonging exclusively to its substantive.

1930 F. R. Blake in Curme Vol. Ling. Stud. 37 The immaterial adnominal cases are..abessive—coffee without sugar.

1993 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 38 99 Gianguido Manzelli researches possessive adnominal modifiers.

1838 C. Anthon Syst. Greek Prosody & Metre 219 Hence the wide range given to the genitive in the Sanscrit, Greek, Latin, and German; and hence, also, this same case has been styled the adnominal, since it is properly used with the noun.

1887 A. J. Blackbird Hist. Ottawa & Chippewa Indians of Michigan iii. 19 ‘Mi-she’ as one of the adnominals or adjectives in the Ottawa and Chippewa languages..would signify tremendous in size.

1949 Africa 19 63 Mr. Price proceeds to divide dependent nominals into adnominals and pronominals, corresponding roughly to ‘adjectives’ and ‘pronouns’.

1992 Trans. Philol. Soc. 90 16 The use of this case here is easily explainable based on the form of the Gothic phrase, which requires an adnominal complement; and the primary case of adnominals is the genitive.

2007 A. Rosenbach in M. Hundt et al. Corpus Linguistics & Web 180 Plural adnominals as such are not uncommon in English (arms dealer, airways clearance, drugs problem).