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Etymology of noun

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Latin nōmen Anglo-Norman noun, non, nombor. Middle English noun English noun Inherited from Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Lati

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Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2

Original entry ↗
noun

A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English. · Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun. · An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Latin nōmen Anglo-Norman noun, non, nombor. Middle English noun English noun Inherited from Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen.

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Unnumbered source etymology · variant 2/2

Original entry ↗
verb

To convert a word to a noun.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Latin nōmen Anglo-Norman noun, non, nombor. Middle English noun English noun Inherited from Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen.

Relationships mentioned by the source

These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

Inspect preserved source fields

Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.

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