denominative
нарицательный
Being a nameBeing a name.
US/di-ˈnä-mə-nə-tiv/
Meaning
3 senses(not comparable)Being a name.
нарица́тельныйnaricátelʹnyj
(not comparable)Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable.
(not comparable)Deriving from a noun, or from an adjective, such as the verb destruct from the noun destruction.
Translations
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being a name:
Origin
From Late Latin dēnōminātīvus, a calque of Ancient Greek παρώνυμος (parṓnumos, “derivativeFrom Late Latin dēnōminātīvus, a calque of Ancient Greek παρώνυμος (parṓnumos, “derivative”). It originally had the meaning “derived”, but in its grammatical sense, it has developed the meaning “from a noun”, perhaps a reinterpretation of the Latin morphemes that it consists of: the preposition dē (“from”) and the stem of nōmen (“name, noun”).
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