denominative
denominative · denominatives
A word, often a verb, that is derived from a noun or adjectiveA word, often a verb, that is derived from a noun or adjective.
US/di-ˈnä-mə-nə-tiv/
Meaning
1 sensesA word, often a verb, that is derived from a noun or adjective.
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
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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Forms
plural: denominatives| Singular | denominative |
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