nominalize

English

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Etymology

From nominal +‎ -izeCategory:English terms suffixed with -ize#NOMINALIZE.

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Verb

nominalize (third-person singular simple present nominalizes, present participle nominalizing, simple past and past participle nominalized)Category:English lemmas#NOMINALIZECategory:English verbs#NOMINALIZECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NOMINALIZECategory:Pages with entries#NOMINALIZECategory:Pages with 3 entries#NOMINALIZE (American spellingCategory:American English forms#NOMINALIZE, Oxford British EnglishCategory:Oxford spellings#NOMINALIZE)

  1. (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#NOMINALIZE) 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?
      Category:English terms with quotations#NOMINALIZE
  2. (philosophyCategory:en:Philosophy#NOMINALIZE) To make nominalistic.

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Galician

Verb

nominalizeCategory:Galician non-lemma forms#NOMINALIZECategory:Galician verb forms#NOMINALIZECategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#NOMINALIZECategory:Pages with entries#NOMINALIZECategory:Pages with 3 entries#NOMINALIZE

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

Portuguese

Verb

nominalizeCategory:Portuguese non-lemma forms#NOMINALIZECategory:Portuguese verb forms#NOMINALIZECategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#NOMINALIZECategory:Pages with entries#NOMINALIZECategory:Pages with 3 entries#NOMINALIZE

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