Will Voluntary, spontaneous
Winter Brumal
Wound Vulnerary
West Occidental
War Martial
Women Feminine, female, effeminate
Year Annual, anniversary, perennial, triennial

Such are some of the adjectives introduced into our language from other
nations. The list will enable you to discover that when we have no
adjective of our own to correspond with the noun, we borrow from our
neighbors an adjective derived from one of their nouns, to which we give
an english termination. For example:

_English Noun._ _Latin Noun._ _Adjective._

Boy Puer Puerile
Grief Dolor Dolorous
Thought Pensa Pensive
Wife Uxor Uxorious
Word Verbum Verbal, verbose
Year Annum Annual
Body Corpus Corporeal
Head Caput Capital
Church Ekklesia (_Greek_) Ecclesiastical
King Roi (_French_) Royal
Law Loi " Loyal

It is exceedingly difficult to understand the adjectives of many nouns
with which we are familiar, from the fact above stated, that they are