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单词 substantivate
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substantivateadj.

Forms: late Middle English substantiuate, 1500s substantyuate.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin substantivatus, substantivare.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin substantivatus, past participle of substantivare to use as a substantive (12th cent.; from 13th cent. in British sources) < substantivus substantive adj.
Obsolete.
Grammar. As past participle: made into or used as a substantive.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [adjective]
substantivea1398
substantivatec1400
nominalc1450
substantival1796
nounal1871
nouny1926
c1400 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 192 ‘Gode thyng’, ‘euyl thyng’, and all swylk sal be neutre gendir substantiuate.
a1504 J. Holt Lac Puerorum (1508) ii. sig. Cviiiv Adiectyues in the neutre gendre, hauynge after them exprest or vnderstonde ony of these englysshe wordes, thynge, thynges, or gere, be as substantyues, and be called substantyues and stande substantyuate.
?1516 W. Lily Rudimenta sig. Aiiii An adiectyue standyng without a substantyue shall be put in the neutre gendre substantyuate: as It is good. Bonum est.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

substantivatev.

Brit. /səbˈstantᵻveɪt/, U.S. /səbˈstæn(t)əˌveɪt/
Forms: see substantive adj. and n. and -ate suffix3.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: substantive n., -ate suffix3.
Etymology: < substantive n. + -ate suffix3. Compare earlier substantivate adj.
Grammar.
transitive. = substantivize v.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [verb (transitive)]
substantivate1613
nominalize1659
substantive1678
substantize1794
substantivize1848
nounize1871
1613 Bp. W. Cowper Let. 25 Nov. in Dikaiologie (1614) 170 An Adiectiue substantiuated in the plurall.
1868 G. Helms Eng. Adj. in Lang. of Shakspere iii. 20 Cases where A[djective]s have been substantivated.
1948 Hispanic Rev. 16 267 Moreover, -enc is plentifully represented in Old Provençal, where it serves to substantivate adjectives.
2002 T. O'Leary Foucault & Art of Ethics v. 94 Having pointed out that in discussions of ‘the self’, in both the Greek texts and Foucault's, the word in question is a mere reflexive pronoun.., he immediately has to recognize that the Greeks did in fact substantivate this ‘self’ as the soul.

Derivatives

subˈstantivated adj.
ΚΠ
1868 G. Helms Eng. Adj. in Lang. of Shakspere iii. 21 Such a substantivated neuter may again be qualified by A[djective]s.
1926 Amer. Speech 1 423/1 Whitman's personal nouns or agent nouns include general words, commercial words, and substantivated participles.
2001 Mnemosyne 54 422 A substantivated present participle may refer to a single action in the past.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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