Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The diachronic process of forming a new single word from a fixed expression of several words.

    Univerbation, Zusammenrückung, Univerbierung

    универба́цияuniverbácija

  2. (countable, uncountable)A new word formed by this process.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
(linguistics) the diachronic process of forming a new single word from a fixed expression of several words:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
(linguistics) the diachronic process of forming a new single word from a fixed expression of several words:

Origin

Probably from French univerbation, from uni- (“uni-”) + Latin verbum (“word”) + French -at

Probably from French univerbation, from uni- (“uni-”) + Latin verbum (“word”) + French -ation (“-ation”).

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Forms

plural: univerbations
Singularuniverbation
Pluraluniverbations

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
monophrasisword-amalgamationmonolexismonolexia

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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