nominative

Etymology

From Middle English nominatyf, either via Old French nominatif or directly from Latin nōminātīvus (“pertaining to naming, nominative”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: nŏm'ĭnətĭv, nŏm'nətĭv, IPA^(key): /ˈnɒmɪnətɪv/, /ˈnɒmnətɪv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

nominative (not comparable)

1. Giving a name; naming; designating.

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   • 2007, William D. Popkin, Evolution of the Judicial Opinion: Institutional and Individual Styles, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 104:

     A telling marker of the change in the reporter's status was the elimination of the nominative reports (that is, the citation of the reports by the reporter's name). The first state to use “state reports” rather than the nominative designation was Connecticut (1814). Many other states made this change in the middle of the 19th Century or began their official reports with state reports.

2. (grammar) Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
3. Making a selection or nomination; choosing.
   • 2014, Eva Diaz, The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College:

     To Duchamp, an artist's nominative act—the declaration itself regardless of the object—was itself the art. He could choose anything indifferent to, or even in spite of, its aesthetic merits.

Noun

nominative (plural nominatives)

1. The nominative case.
2. A noun in the nominative case.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ.mi.na.tiv/

• Audio:

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Adjective

nominative

1. feminine singular of nominatif

Adjective

nominative

1. feminine plural of nominativo

Anagrams

• inventiamo

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /noː.mi.naːˈtiː.u̯e/, [noːmɪnäːˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /no.mi.naˈti.ve/, [nominäˈt̪iːve]

Adjective

nōminātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of nōminātīvus

References

• nominative in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌnominaˈtive/

Adjective

nominative

1. feminine/neuter plural nominative/accusative of nominativ

Noun

nominative n pl

1. plural of nominativ