nominalize

English

Alternative forms

• nominalise (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥

Proto-Italic *nōmn̥

Latin nōmen

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin nōminālisder.

Middle English nominalle

English nominal

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English nominalize

From nominal + -ize.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɒmɪnəlaɪz/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑmənəlaɪz/

Verb

nominalize (third-person singular simple present nominalizes, present participle nominalizing, simple past and past participle nominalized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (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

     To nominalize an adjective that refers to a known noun, the articles el, la, los, and las are used (Unit 11 §59); to nominalize an adjective that does not refer to a known noun, the neuter article lo is used.

   • 1983, Peter Achinstein, The Nature of Explanation, Oxford University Press US, page 199:

     But, Dretske asks, what happens when we nominalize a propositional allomorph?

2. (philosophy) To make nominalistic.

Derived terms

• nominalizable

Related terms

• adnoun (“a nominalized adjective”)
• nominalizer, nominaliser
• nominalist
• nominalization, nominalisation

Translations

to use as or change into a noun — see also substantivise

Catalan: nominalitzar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 名詞化 / 名词化 (zh) (míngcíhuà) French: nominaliser (fr) Galician: nominalizar German: nominalisieren (de) Greek: ουσιαστικοποιώ (el) (ousiastikopoió) Hungarian: (with non-zero affix) főnevet képez, (with zero affix) főnévként használ Italian: nominalizzare Japanese: 名詞化する (ja) (めいしかする, meishika suru) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: Cyrillic: нэрших (mn) (neršix) Mongolian script: ᠨᠡᠷᠡᠰᠢᠬᠦ (neresikü) Polish: nominalizować impf, znominalizować pf Portuguese: nominalizar Spanish: nominalizar (es) Swedish: substantivera (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: adlaştırmak (tr)

See also

• substantive
• substantivisation, substantivization

• (converting into or using as another part of speech)
  
  • adjectivize/adjectivise, adjective, adjectify
  • adverbialize/adverbialise, (rare) adverb, (rare) adverbify, adverbize/adverbise
  • nominalize/nominalise, substantivize/substantivise, noun, (rare) nounify, substantify, (very rare) substantive
  • verbalize/verbalise, (colloquial) verb, verbify

Further reading

• nominalisation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Galician

Verb

nominalize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of nominalizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

nominalize

1. inflection of nominalizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative