reification

The story

1. Latin · derived fromrēs“thing”
2. German · calque ofVerdinglichung
3. English todayreification

First attested around 1846; a macaronic calque of German Verdinglichung, using -ification (“making”) for ver- + -lich + -ung, and Latin rēs (“thing”) for Ding (“thing”)

Words from the same roots