different between inflection vs nominative

For inflection templates, see Wiktionary:Inflection templates.

English

Alternative forms

• inflexion

Etymology

From the English inflexion, from Middle French inflexion, from Latin inflexio, inflexionis (“a bending away from”); the spelling inflection is due to influence from correction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?fl?k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n
• Hyphenation: in?flec?tion

Noun

inflection (countable and uncountable, plural inflections)

1. (grammar) A change in the form of a word to express different grammatical categories.

2. A change in pitch or tone of voice.

3. (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
4. A turning away from a straight course.

5. (optometry) diffraction

Synonyms

• flection, flexion

Hyponyms

• (grammar): conjugation
• (grammar): declension, declination

Related terms

• inflect
• inflected

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English nominatyf, either via Old French nominatif or directly from Latin n?min?t?vus (“pertaining to naming, nominative”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?m?n?t?v/

Adjective

nominative (not comparable)

1. Giving a name; naming; designating.

   nominative fair use

   • 2007, William D. Popkin, Evolution of the Judicial Opinion: Institutional and Individual Styles, NYU Press (?ISBN), page 104:

     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.

2. (grammar) Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
3. Making a selection or nomination; choosing.

Derived terms

• denominative

Translations

Noun

nominative (plural nominatives)

1. The nominative case.
2. A noun in the nominative case.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?.mi.na.tiv/

Adjective

nominative

1. feminine singular of nominatif

Italian

Adjective

nominative

1. feminine plural of nominativo

Anagrams

• inventiamo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /no?.mi.na??ti?.u?e/, [no?m?nä??t?i?u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /no.mi.na?ti.ve/, [n?min??t?i?v?]

Adjective

n?min?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of n?min?t?vus

References

• nominative in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nomina?tive/

Adjective

nominative

1. feminine plural nominative of nominativ
2. feminine plural accusative of nominativ
3. neuter plural nominative of nominativ
4. neuter plural accusative of nominativ

Noun

nominative n pl

1. plural of nominativ