# ornamental
## English
### Etymology

From ornament +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɔːnəˈmɛntl/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˌɔɹnəˈmɛntl/

### Adjective

ornamental (comparative more ornamental, superlative most ornamental)
* Serving as an ornament; having no purpose other than to make more beautiful.
    Synonyms: beautifying, embellishing, decorative
    Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.
** 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:We shall leave to the reader to determine with what judgment we have chosen the several occasions for inserting those ornamental parts of our work.
** 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 20:There were ornamental ponds and shrubs clipped into animal shapes, painted concrete gnomes sitting on mushrooms, pink flamingos standing on one leg[.]
* (of a plant, fish, etc.) Bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes.
    Those pine trees on the lawn are the fastest-growing ornamentals we could find.

#### Related terms

* ornamentation
* ornamentally

#### Translations
### Noun

ornamental (plural ornamentals)
* An ornamental plant.
** 1991 October 10, Jackson Granholm, “In praise of the tumbleweed”, in News Chronicle, Thousand Oaks, Calif., page B-7, column 3:The tumbleweed is a gracious gift from the Russians, having been imported as a favored ornamental from the steppes of central Asia.

#### Translations
## Catalan
### Etymology

From ornament +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ur.nə.mənˈtal]
* IPA: (Balearic) [or.nə.mənˈtal]
* IPA: (Valencia) [oɾ.na.menˈtal]
* Rhymes: -al

### Adjective

ornamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural ornamentals)
* ornamental

### Further reading

* “ornamental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “ornamental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “ornamental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “ornamental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

From ornamento +‎ -al.

### Adjective

ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais)
* ornamental

### Further reading

* “ornamental”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From ornamento (“ornament”) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /oʁ.na.mẽˈtaw/ [oɦ.na.mẽˈtaʊ̯]
* (Brazil) IPA: /oʁ.na.mẽˈtaw/ [oɦ.na.mẽˈtaʊ̯]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /oɾ.na.mẽˈtaw/ [oɾ.na.mẽˈtaʊ̯]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /oʁ.na.mẽˈtaw/ [oʁ.na.mẽˈtaʊ̯]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /oɻ.na.mẽˈtaw/ [oɻ.na.mẽˈtaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈtal/ [ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈtaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈtal/ [ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈtaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈta.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: or‧na‧men‧tal

### Adjective

ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais)
* ornamental

#### Derived terms

* ornamentalmente

### Further reading

* “ornamental”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ornemental. By surface analysis, ornament +‎ -al.

### Adjective

ornamental m or n (feminine singular ornamentală, masculine plural ornamentali, feminine and neuter plural ornamentale)
* ornamental

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From ornamento +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oɾnamenˈtal/ [oɾ.na.mẽn̪ˈt̪al]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: or‧na‧men‧tal

### Adjective

ornamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural ornamentales)
* ornamental

#### Derived terms

* ornamentalmente

#### Related terms

* ornamentación
* ornamentar

### Further reading

* “ornamental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Adjective

ornamental (not (comparable))
* ornamental

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

#### Related terms

* ornament
* ornamentera
* ornamentik

### References

* ornamental in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* ornamental in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* ornamental in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)