nominalizern.
/ˈnɒmᵻnl̩ʌɪzə/, /ˈnɒmᵻnəlʌɪzə/, U.S. /ˈnɑmənlˌaɪzər/, /ˈnɑmənəˌlaɪzər/ Grammar.
An affix which may be added to a word or phrase so as to convert it into a nominal.
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augmentive1816
infix1881
subfix1895
nominalizer1943
simulfix1954
1943 Far Eastern Q. 2 333 Even the exigencies of the times cannot entirely excuse the non-use of recent scholarship in such categories as..nominalizers.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 117 The nominalizer -ma is attached directly to the future durative suffixes.
1985 Word 36 145 Three derivative morphemes -ness, -un, and -ly manifest the tagmemes nominalizer, privative, and adjectivizer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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