Etymology

nominalistic

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Today it means: Having a nominalist character Full definition →

English nominalist ← Middle English nominalle ← Latin nōminālis
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁nómn̥
  2. Proto-Italic*nōmn̥
  3. Latinnōmen
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  6. Latinnōminālis
  7. Middle Englishnominalle
  8. Englishnominal
  9. Englishnominalist
  10. English todaynominalistic

From nominalist + -ic.

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