non-nominative
|non-nom-i-na-tive|
🇺🇸
/ˌnɑnˈnɑmɪnətɪv/
🇬🇧
/ˌnɒnˈnɒmɪnətɪv/
not subject case
Etymology
'non-nominative' originates from English, specifically formed from the negative prefix 'non' (from Latin 'non') meaning 'not' and the adjective 'nominative' from Latin 'nominativus', where 'nomen' meant 'name'.
'nominative' came from Latin 'nominativus', passed into Old French as 'nominatif' and into Middle English as 'nominative'; the prefix 'non-' was taken from Latin 'non' and later combined with 'nominative' in English to form compounds such as 'non-nominative'.
Initially, 'nominative' related to 'the name' or 'naming', but over time its sense narrowed to the grammatical 'subject case'; 'non-nominative' retains the straightforward compositional meaning 'not nominative'.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
a form or instance that is not in the nominative case (the state or quality of being non-nominative).
The non-nominative of the pronoun is marked differently in this dialect.
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Adjective 1
not in the nominative case; belonging to a grammatical case other than the nominative (i.e., not the subject form).
In Latin, the noun appears in a non-nominative case when it functions as an object.
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