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denominative

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Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
22
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/di-ˈnä-mə-nə-tiv/

Definition of denominative

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Being a name.
    “From the fact that this was the most noticeable feature in their costume, the name came naturally to be the denominative term of the tribe.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Being a name.
    “From the fact that this was the most noticeable feature in their costume, the name came naturally to be the denominative term of the tribe.”
  2. (not-comparable)Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable.
    “The least denominative part of time is a second.”
  3. (not-comparable)Deriving from a noun, or from an adjective, such as the verb destruct from the noun destruction.

noun

  1. A word, often a verb, that is derived from a noun or adjective.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Late Latin dē Late Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Late Latin nōmen Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European…

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Late Latin dē Late Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Late Latin nōmen Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Late Latin -ō Late Latin nōminō Late Latin dēnōminō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Late Latin -īvus Late Latin dēnōminātīvusbor. English denominative From 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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