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I'm still curious why do most dictionaries-- even the most comprehensive ones I know, do not yield result for that.
This is curious. It's not at dictionary.com. And yet look at this from the (not particularly comprehensive) New Oxford American Dictionary that comes with the iLife OS on a Mac :Quote:
denominal
adjective [ attrib. ]
(of a word)
derived from a noun. noun a verb or other word that is derived from a noun.
ORIGIN 1930s: from de- + nominal .
Usually it works the other way round (if a word is not in my Apple desktop dictionary, I look it up at dictionary.com).
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