countify
To use as a count noun.
Verb
- To use as a count noun.
- We can, for instance, “countify” mass nouns which come to be associated with a standard counter or container. […] Also in distinguishing some particular kind or type of the mass noun substance (by a limiting modifier of...
- Any stuff for which there are standard portions used for whatever purposes will immediately become countified: three beers, an ice cream, an entertainment, etc. - 1989, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Lenhart K. Schubert,...
- 1992, James F. Allen and Lenhart K. Schubert, “Language and Discourse in the TRAINS Project”, in Andrew Ortony, John Slack, and Oliviero Stock (editors), Communication From an Artificial Intelligence Perspective:...
Origin
Etymology tree Latin computō Anglo-Norman counterbor. Middle English counten English count Latin -i- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-fakāō Latin -ficō Latin -ificāreder. Old French -ifierbor. Middle English -ifien English -ify English countify From count + -ify.