denominative en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Latin nōmen Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin nōminō Latin dēnōminō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. 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”).
Meanings
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(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.
1885, William Philo Clark, The Indian Sign Language, page 283:
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(not-comparable) Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable.
The least denominative part of time is a second.
1678, J. Hawkins, Cocker's Arithm., ii. 29:
- (not-comparable) Deriving from a noun, or from an adjective, such as the verb destruct from the noun destruction.
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Translations (12)
es denominativo (deriving from a noun) · fi denominaalinen (deriving from a noun) · fi nominikantainen (deriving from a noun) · pl odrzeczownikowy (deriving from a noun) · ca denominatiu (deriving from a noun) · el μετονοματικός (deriving from a noun) · fr dénominal (deriving from a noun) · bg нарицателен (being a name) · it denominale (deriving from a noun) · pl odimienny (being a name) · it denominativo (deriving from a noun) · ru нарица́тельный (being a name)