Noun: nominal
| Singular | nominal |
| Plural | nominals |
Sample Sentences
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This sentence contains two nominals.
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A considerable number of derived nominals, especially thematic nouns, also exhibited o-grade roots. [2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 12:]
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Numeric codes of characters used in programming are nominals.
Nouns inflected like nominal
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *h₁nómn̥
3. Etymology tree
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
5. Proto-Italic *nōmn̥
6. Latin nōmen
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-is
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
10. Proto-Italic *-ālis
11. Latin -ālis
12. Latin nōminālisder.
13. Middle English nominalle
14. English nominal
15. From the Middle English nominalle (“of nouns”), borrowed from Latin nōminālis (“of names”), ultimately from oblique stem of Latin nōmen, nōminis (“name”) + -al. See: Middle English Nouns '
nominalle', Latin Nouns '
nōminālis', Latin Nouns '
nōmen'.