In linguistics, describing a word or form that is derived from a verb; coming from or based on a verb.
From de- + verb + -ative, a technical term in linguistics coined to describe word formation processes where nouns or adjectives are created from verb roots.
Linguists love this term: 'running' is a deverbative noun (from 'run'), and 'runner' is too—English constantly converts verbs into other parts of speech, and 'deverbative' labels that process perfectly!
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