FromMiddle Englishnominatyf, either viaOld Frenchnominatif or directly fromLatinnōminātīvus(“pertaining to naming, nominative”).
- (UK)enPR:nŏm'ĭnətĭv,nŏm'nətĭv,IPA(key): /ˈnɒmɪnətɪv/,/ˈnɒmnətɪv/
nominative (notcomparable)
- Giving a name;naming;designating.
nominative fair 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 thenominative reports (that is, the citation of the reports by the reporter's name). The first state to use “state reports” rather than thenominative 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.
- (grammar) Being in thatcase or form of anoun which stands as the subject of afinite verb.
- Making aselection ornomination;choosing.
2014, Eva Diaz,The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College:To Duchamp, an artist'snominative 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.
being in the nominative case
nominative (pluralnominatives)
- Thenominative case.
- Anoun in the nominative case.
noun in the nominative case
nominative
- femininesingular ofnominatif
nominative
- feminineplural ofnominativo
nōminātīve
- vocativemasculinesingular ofnōminātīvus
nominative
- feminine/neuterpluralnominative/accusative ofnominativ
nominative n pl
- plural ofnominativ
