Etymology

nominalize

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Today it means: To use as or change into a noun, often by affixing a morpheme. Full definition →

English nominal ← 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. English todaynominalize

From nominal + -ize.

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