ETYM Latin nominativus belonging to a name, nominative.
1. Named; bearing the name of a specific person; SYN. nominal.
2. (Grammar) Serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb.

The category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb; SYN. nominative case, subject case.
Indicating subject of a verb
Grammar, (case) signifying subject of sentence.
In the grammar of some inflected languages—such as Latin, Russian, and Sanskrit—the form of a word used to indicate that a noun or pronoun is the subject of a finite verb. + prikaži više