nominalize

Verb

nominalize (third-person singular simple present nominalizes, present participle nominalizing, simple past and past participle nominalized)

1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To use as or change into a noun, often by affixing a morpheme.
   • To nominalize an adjective that refers to a known noun, the articles el, la, los, and las are used (Unit 11 §59); to nominalize an adjective that does not refer to a known noun, the neuter article lo is used.1960, Modern Language Association of America, Dwight le Merton Bollinger, Modern Spanish: A Project of The Modern Language Association, Harcourt, Brace, page 226
   • But, Dretske asks, what happens when we nominalize a propositional allomorph?1983, Peter Achinstein, The Nature of Explanation, Oxford University Press US, page 199
2. (British, English, Oxford, US) To make nominalistic.