In many languages, the subject of a verb takes the ____ case form.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In some languages, the ____ case is used to identify the subject of a sentence.
Word Origin & History
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-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.
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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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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: