nominative en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- nŏmʹ(ĭ)nətĭv
- /ˈnɑm(ɪ)nətɪv/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈnɒm(ɪ)nətɪv/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Latin nōmen Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin nōminō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκή (onomăstĭkḗ)calq. Latin nōminātīvusder. Old French nominatifbor. ▲ Latin nōminātīvusbor. Middle English nominatyf English nominative From Middle English nominatyf, either via Old French nominatif or directly from Latin nōminātīvus (“pertaining to naming, nominative”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Giving a name; naming; designating.
nominative fair use
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.
2007, William D. Popkin, Evolution of the Judicial Opinion: Institutional and Individual Styles, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 104:
- (not-comparable) Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
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(not-comparable) Making a selection or nomination; choosing.
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.
2014, Eva Diaz, The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College:
Deriveds
nominative determinism · nominative type system · denominative · nominatively · nominatival · nominative absolute
Translations (38)
pl mianowanie (being in the nominative case) · fi nominatiivinen (being in the nominative case) · ar مَرْفُوع (being in the nominative case) · ang nemniġendlīċ (being in the nominative case) · pl mianujący (being in the nominative case) · fi nominatiivi- (being in the nominative case) · el ονομαστική (being in the nominative case) · ga ainmneach (being in the nominative case) · ky атооч (being in the nominative case) · pt nominativo (being in the nominative case) · la nōminātīvus (being in the nominative case) · sv nominativ- (being in the nominative case) · be назо́ўны (being in the nominative case) · de Nominativ- (being in the nominative case) · sh nominativ (being in the nominative case) · ko 주격 (being in the nominative case) · ro nominativ (being in the nominative case) · ca nominatiu (being in the nominative case) · it nominativo (being in the nominative case) · et nimetav (being in the nominative case) · cy goddrychol (being in the nominative case) · grc ὀνομαστική (being in the nominative case) · ru имени́тельный (being in the nominative case) · is nefnifalls- (being in the nominative case) · fo hvørfals- (being in the nominative case) · es nominativo (being in the nominative case) · hy ուղղական (being in the nominative case) · fr nominatif (being in the nominative case) · da nominativ (being in the nominative case) · da nævnefald (being in the nominative case) · nl in de nominatief (being in the nominative case) · af nominatief (being in the nominative case) · nl nominatief- (being in the nominative case) · sv i nominativ (being in the nominative case) · bg имени́телен (being in the nominative case) · uk називни́й (being in the nominative case) · de im Nominativ (being in the nominative case) · is í nefnafalli (being in the nominative case)