Adjective may be more rigid in some languages than others; in some, like Spanish, it may only be a default ("unmarked") word order, with other orders being permissible. Other languages, such as Tagalog, follow their adjectival orders as rigidly as English. The normal adjectival order of English may be overridden in certain circumstances, especially when one adjective is being fronted. In addition, the usual order of adjectives in English would result in the phrase "the bad big wolf" (opinion before size), but instead the usual phrase is "the big bad wolf", perhaps because the ablaut reduplication rule that high vowels precede
Collateral adjective However, in other cases the two words may have lexicalized uses so that one cannot replace the other, as in "nocturnal view" and "night view", or "feline grace" but "cat food" (not *"cat grace" or *"feline food"). Collateral adjectives contrast with derived (denominal) adjectives. For the noun "father", for example, there is a derived adjective "fatherly" in addition to the collateral adjective "paternal." Similarly, for the noun "rain" there is derived "rainy" and collateral "pluvial," and for "child" there are derived "childish" and "childlike" as well as collateral "infantile" and "puerile." The term "collateral adjective" was coined by the "Funk