Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

univerbization

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: uni-ver-biza-tion
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Univerbation, or the process of the creation of one.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"None of the words in the left column can be viewed as being derived from the phrases in the right column by univerbization transformation because the pairs of items differ in terms of either gender or number."
"J. Bosák, ib., 231-37, discusses univerbization and the frequent stylistic shift of words formed in this way from colloquial to neutral."
"Semantic condensations and univerbizations (that is, the reduction of semantically transparent compounds to one stem expressions omitting the explanandum), developed in the 19th century by Croatian for the same puristic reasons, found their way (slightly adapted phonologically) into the Macedonian standard as well. For example: […]"

Etymology

From univerbize + -ation.

Usage

Inflected Forms

univerbizations (plural)

Questions

What does univerbization mean?: Univerbation, or the process of the creation of one.
Where does univerbization come from?: From univerbize + -ation.

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