"The adjective ""cervine"", is used when pertaining to which animal?"
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 adjectives. In general, an adjective is capitalized if its meaning is "pertaining to "X"", where "X" is some specific person, place, language, or organized group. Most capitalized adjectives are derived from proper nouns; for example, the proper adjective "American" is derived from the proper noun "America". Sometimes, an adjective is capitalized because it designates an ethnic group with a shared culture, heritage, or ancestry. This usage asserts the existence of a unified group with common goals. For example, in Canadian government documents, "Native" and "Aboriginal" are capitalized. An adjective can lose its capitalization when it takes on new meanings, such