denominative
/di-ˈnä-mə-nə-tiv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Being a name.
adj
Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The least denominative part of time is a second."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: dēnōminātīvus, παρώνυμος
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /di-ˈnä-mə-nə-tiv/