denominative

Meanings

1. Being a name.
2. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable.
3. Deriving from a noun, or from an adjective, such as the verb destruct from the noun destruction.

1. A word, often a verb, that is derived from a noun or adjective.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Late Latin dē Late Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Late Latin nōmen Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Late Latin -ō Late Latin nōminō Late Latin dēnōminō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Late 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”).