nominative

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: nom=i=na=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

nominative, a. [L. nominativus belonging to a name, nominative.].

 Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nominative, n. & adj.
--n. Gram.
1 the case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, expressing the subject of a verb.
2 a word in this case.
--adj.
1 Gram. of or in this case.
2 of, or appointed by, nomination (as distinct from election).

Derivative

nominatival adj.

Etymology

ME f. OF nominatif -ive or L nominativus (as NOMINATE), transl. Gk onomastike (ptosis case)

THESAURUS

nominative

abessive, ablative, accusative, adessive, allative, appellative, approximative, byname, case, cognominal, common case, dative, delative, denominative, diminutive, elative, epithetic, eponymic, eponymous, essive, formal, genitive, honorific, hypocoristic, illative, in name only, inessive, instrumental, lative, local case, locative, nominal, objective case, oblique case, perlative, possessive case, prepositional, quasi, self-called, self-christened, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, subject case, sublative, superessive, terminative, titular, translative, vocative, would-be