Substantivised

Part of speech: verb, adjective

Definitions

1. Converting an adjective or other word into a noun form ; giving a word the grammatical role of a noun
2. Changing a word such as an adjective so that it functions as a noun ; making a term take on the role of a naming word
3. Turning a word from another part of speech into a noun ; reclassifying a term so that it names a thing, person or idea

Etymology: "Substantivised" is the past tense and past participle of "substantivise", which means to make a word or phrase function as a noun. The verb is formed from "substantive", itself a noun-and-adjective word, plus the suffix "-ise", which turns a noun or adjective into a verb meaning to make or treat something in a certain way. So "substantivise" means roughly "to make into a substantive", and "substantivised" is simply the form that describes an adjective, pronoun, or other word that has been turned into a noun, as in "the substantivised adjective 'the good'." The root "substantive" comes from Latin "substantivus", derived from "substantia", meaning "substance" or "essence", which in turn gave English the older sense of a noun as the substance of a sentence. The "-ise" ending is the familiar Greek-derived verb suffix that English uses for countless coinages, so the word is a straightforward combination of a grammatical term and a verbal ending.

Synonyms: nominalized