nominative

See also:Nominative

English

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishnominatyf,either viaOld Frenchnominatifor directly fromLatinnōminātīvus(“pertaining to naming, nominative”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio(Southern England):

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Adjective

nominative(notcomparable)

1. Giving a name;naming;designating.

   nominativefair use

   • 2007,William D. Popkin,Evolution of the Judicial Opinion: Institutional and Individual Styles,NYU Press,→ISBN,page104:

     A telling marker of the change in the reporter's status was the elimination of thenominativereports (that is, the citation of the reports by the reporter's name). The first state to use “state reports” rather than thenominativedesignation 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 thatcaseor form of anounwhich stands as the subject of afinite verb.
3. Making aselectionornomination;choosing.
   • 2014,Eva Diaz,The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College:

     To Duchamp, an artist'snominativeact—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.

Derived terms

• denominative
• nominative absolute
• nominative determinism
• nominative type system

Translations

being in the nominative case

• Afrikaans:nominatief(af)
• Arabic:مَرْفُوعm(marfūʕ)
• Armenian:ուղղական(hy)(uġġakan)
• Belarusian:назо́ўны(nazóŭny)
• Bulgarian:имени́телен(imenítelen)
• Catalan:nominatiu(ca)m
• Dutch:nominatief(nl),noemer(nl)m
• Estonian:nimetav(et)
• Faroese:hvørfals-(fo)
• Finnish:nominatiivi-(fi),nominatiivinen
• French:nominatif(fr)m
• German:Nominativ-(de),nominativisch(de)
• Greek:ονομαστική(el)f(onomastikí)

  Ancient:ὀνομαστικήf(onomastikḗ)

• Icelandic:^{(pleaseverify)}nefnifalls-(is)
• Italian:nominativo(it)m
• Korean:주격( chủ cách )(ko)(jugyeok)
• Kyrgyz:атооч(ky)(atooc)
• Latin:nōminātīvusm
• Old English:nemniġendlīċ
• Polish:mianujący,mianowanie(pl)n
• Portuguese:nominativo(pt)m
• Romanian:nominativ(ro)
• Russian:имени́тельный(ru)m(imenítelʹnyj)
• Spanish:nominativo(es)
• Swedish:nominativ(sv)
• Ukrainian:називни́й(uk)(nazyvnýj)
• Welsh:goddrychol(cy)

Noun

nominative(pluralnominatives)

1. Thenominative case.
2. Anounin the nominative case.

Translations

the nominative case—seenominative case

noun in the nominative case

• Finnish:nominatiivi(fi),nimentö(fi)
• Welsh:goddrychol(cy)m

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/nɔ.mi.na.tiv/

• Audio:

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Adjective

nominative

1. femininesingularofnominatif

Italian

Adjective

nominative

1. femininepluralofnominativo

Anagrams

• inventiamo

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

nōminātīve

1. vocativemasculinesingularofnōminātīvus

References

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˌnominaˈtive/

Adjective

nominative

1. feminine/neuterpluralnominative/accusativeofnominativ

Noun

nominativenpl

1. pluralofnominativ