The adjective cervine relates to which animals?
Antelope of Antioch ("circa" 336), according to whom it was a fabulous animal "haunting the banks of the Euphrates, very savage, hard to catch and having long, saw-like horns capable of cutting down trees". It perhaps derives from Greek "anthos" (flower) and "ops" (eye), perhaps meaning "beautiful eye" or alluding to the animals' long eyelashes. This, however, may be a later folk etymology. The word "talopus" and "calopus", from Latin, came to be used in heraldry. In 1607, it was first used for living, cervine animals. The 91 species, most of which are native to Africa, occur in about 30 genera.
Proper adjective because it refers to any one member of a group of animals. In English orthography, most proper nouns are capitalized, while most common nouns are not. As a result, the term "proper noun" has come to mean, in lay usage, "a noun that is capitalized", and "common noun" to mean "a noun that is not capitalized". Furthermore, English adjectives that derive from proper nouns are usually capitalized. Because of this, the terms "proper adjective" and "common adjective" have come to be used, with meanings analogous to the lay meanings of "proper noun" and "common noun". Proper adjectives are just capitalized