Is "nomenalism" a bona fide neologism?

[bjorda...@gmail.com]

The term "nominalism" is well known, and clearly coined from the plural term nomina for names. Is "nomenalism", from singular nomen, acceptable as a neologism for a related view which is meant to differ somewhat?

[bjorda...@gmail.com]

Thank you very much for suggesting nomenism, Peter J. Ross! I think I will use that.

kl. 19:10:13 UTC+1 mandag 28. januar 2013 skrev Peter J Ross følgende:
> In humanities.classics on Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:56:36 -0800 (PST),

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> bjorda...@gmail.com <bjorda...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > The term "nominalism" is well known, and clearly coined from the
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> > plural term nomina for names.
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> The Latin stem is "nomin-", and compounds in Latin are almost always
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> There exist, however, good Latin words like "nomenclatio"
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> and "nomenclator". Compare English "nomenclature" and Russian
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> "Nomenklatura".

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> > differ somewhat?
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> In English, neologisms are always acceptable, but do you really need
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> "-al-" infixed?
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> "Nomenism" sounds better to me, and makes misreadings less likely.
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> PJR :-) | οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ, τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν.
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> | φύλλα τὰ μέν τ' ἄνεμος χαμάδις χέει, ἄλλα δέ θ' ὕλη
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> | τηλεθόωσα φύει, ἔαρος δ' ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρη·
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> | ὣς ἀνδρῶν γενεὴ ἡ μὲν φύει ἡ δ' ἀπολήγει. (Homer)

[Will Parsons]

Peter J Ross wrote:
> In humanities.classics on Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:56:36 -0800 (PST),
> bjorda...@gmail.com <bjorda...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The term "nominalism" is well known, and clearly coined from the
>> plural term nomina for names.
>

> The Latin stem is "nomin-", and compounds in Latin are almost always
> formed from the stem.
>
> There exist, however, good Latin words like "nomenclatio"
> and "nomenclator". Compare English "nomenclature" and Russian
> "Nomenklatura".
>

>> Is "nomenalism", from singular nomen,
>> acceptable as a neologism for a related view which is meant to
>> differ somewhat?
>

> In English, neologisms are always acceptable, but do you really need
> "-al-" infixed?
>
> "Nomenism" sounds better to me, and makes misreadings less likely.

This may be getting too picky, but I would consider the form
"nominism" to be better that "nomenism", as it keeps the normal stem
form. The forms "nomenclatio", &c, are not arbitrary exceptions to
the normal "nomin-", but are conditioned by the following consonant.

Of course, one could also object to "nom[ei]nism" as combining both
Latin and Greek elements, but if one were to form a word from purely
Greek elements, one would end up with something like "onomatism",
which I suppose might be getting a little too far away from the
starting point, "nominalism".

At any rate, I agree that "nomenalism" is very likely to be misread.

--
Will

[bjorda...@gmail.com]

Thanks Will, I follow your advice as well.

Frode