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nominative(dictionary)

nominative (iou)



nominative adjective & noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French nominatif, -ive or Latin nominativus (sc. casus case), formed as NOMINATE verb: see -ATIVE.]
A. adjective.
1. Grammar. Designating, being in, or pertaining to a case of words in inflected languages functioning as or qualifying the subject of a verb. LME.
2. Nominated; appointed by nomination. M17.
3. Of or pertaining to the giving of a name or names. rare. M19.
A. Burgess We have been taught to accept the nominative claim of Amerigo Vespucci as regards America.
4. Bearing the name of a person. L19.
B. noun. Grammar. The nominative case; a word, form, etc., in the nominative case. LME.
nominative absolute a construction in which a nominative noun or pronoun followed by an (adjectival or non-finite verbal) adjunct forms an adverbial phrase (as in the dictionary being completed, they celebrated).
nominatival adjective of or pertaining to the nominative case; having the character of a nominative: M19.