denominative

Meanings

Adjective

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

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• denominal

Origin

• From Late Latin dēnōminātīvus, a calque of παρώνυμος. 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 and the stem of nōmen.