nominalize

English

Alternative forms

• nominalise (Non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

nominal +‎ -ize

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɒmɪnəlaɪz/
• (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.

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 (ousiastikopoió)
• Hungarian: (with non-zero affix) főnevet képez, (with zero affix) főnévként használ
• Italian: nominalizzare
• Japanese: 名詞化する (めいしかする, meishika suru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: нэрших (mn) (neršix) ᠨᠡᠷᠡᠰᠢᠬᠦ (neresikü)
• 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
• nominalize/nominalise, substantivize/substantivise, noun, (rare) nounify, (very rare) substantive
• verbalize/verbalise, (colloquial) verb, verbify

Further reading

• nominalisation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia