English
pronominal
Pronominal comes from Latin pronomen ‘pronoun’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpronomenas prōnōmen‘pronoun’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEprōnōminālis
- Englishearliest quotation 2014pronominal
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpronomenas prōnōmen‘pronoun’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEprōnōminālis
- Englishearliest quotation 2014pronominal
Earliest quotation: 2014, James Lambert, Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis: “Neither of these pronominal compounds was found in current…”
Proto-Indo-European *pér ‘through’
Proto-Indo-European *pró ‘forwards, before’
Proto-Italic *prō ‘in front of, before’
Latin prō ‘in favor of, on behalf of’
English pro-
Hittite Hittite form ‘to sue, judge’
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Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ ‘name’
Latin nōmen ‘name’
Latin nōminālis ‘of names’
Middle English nominalle ‘of nouns’
English nominal
Every English word from Latin pronomen
Today it means
adj Of, pertaining to, resembling, or functioning as a pronoun.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pronomen / pronominal