nominalize
English
Alternative forms
- nominalise (Non-Oxford British spelling)
Verb
nominalize (third-person singular simple present nominalizes, present participle nominalizing, simple past and past participle nominalized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (linguistics) To use as or change into a noun, often by affixing a morpheme.
- 1960, Modern Language Association of America, Dwight le Merton Bollinger, Modern Spanish: A Project of The Modern Language Association, Harcourt, Brace, page 226
- 1983, Peter Achinstein, The Nature of Explanation, Oxford University Press US, page 199:
- But, Dretske asks, what happens when we nominalize a propositional allomorph?
- (philosophy) To make nominalistic.
Related terms
- adnoun (“a nominalized adjective”)
- nominalizer, nominaliser
- nominalist
- nominalization, nominalisation
Translations
to use as or change into a noun — see also substantivise
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See also
(converting into or using as another part of speech:)
- adjectivize/adjectivise, adjective, adjectify
- adverbialize/adverbialise, (rare) adverb, (rare) adverbify, adverbize
- nominalize/nominalise, substantivize/substantivise, noun, (rare) nounify, (very rare) substantive
- verbalize/verbalise, (colloquial) verb, verbify
Further reading
- nominalisation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Galician
Verb
nominalize
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of nominalizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Portuguese
Verb
nominalize
- inflection of nominalizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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