nominify

English

Verb

nominify (third-person singular simple present nominifies, present participle nominifying, simple past and past participle nominified)

1. (linguistics) To convert into a noun.
   • 1969, Allan Danzig, Edith Schor, Thesis: Rhetoric of the Essay, page 310:

     In English we tend to nominify— that is, to turn verbs and adjectives into nouns (the first version of this sentence began, "There is a tendency in English...").

   • 2002 January 3, Norm DePloom, “{ASSD} Pseudo-Victorian Porn & MS Word Don't Mix”, in alt.sex.stories.d (Usenet):

     I think Shakespeare verbified a great many nouns, and nominified (if that's a word!) quite a few verbs too.

   • 2010 April 3, Richard Bos, “Helldesk ticket of the month”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet):

     Especially since "Sequel" would be more appropriately nominified as "Squeal".

   • 2018 March 21, Kimberley Lear, “What are the origins of the UK vs. US word differences ‘acclimatise’ vs. ‘acclimate’ and ‘burgled’ vs. ‘burglarised’?”, in Quora:

     English has been verbifying nouns for ever, (and nominifying verbs too for good measure).