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5 In English we say things like: a cal­i­brat ed de­vice a dis­trib­ut ed prod­uct a found ed com­pany a de­stroy ed house Those ‑ed words there all sig­nify that some verb (here re­spec­tively cal­i­brate, dis­tribute, found, or de­stroy ) has been “done onto” the noun that fol­lows it. What is the term for this gram­mat­i­cal de­vice? Or, what is a sin­gle term for some­thing hav­ing been done unto X as a char­ac­ter­is­tic of that X ? As­sum­ing that we’re talk­ing only about words that de­rive from verbs and used with nouns here like my ex­am­ples all do, can that gram­mat­i­cal term you’ve cho­sen also be ap­plied to any sorts of words that do not end in ‑ed , and are there any sorts of words that do end in ‑ed which this gram­mat­i­cal term would not ap­ply equally to? ...