different between nominative vs thesaurusi

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

English

Alternative forms

• thesauri
• thesauruses

Noun

thesaurusi

1. (rare, nonstandard) plural of thesaurus

Usage notes

• This word is incorrectly formed. For masculine nouns in the nominative case of Latin’s second declension (of which th?saurus is one), -us and -? are singular and plural endings, respectively; one or the other attaches to the noun’s stem (thesaur-), depending on number: the plural ending does not concatenate as thesaur- + -us + -i = thesaurusi, but rather supplants the singular ending (-us) as thesaur- + -i = thesauri — thus forming the correct Latin nominative plural, which is also valid in English. Alternatively, in English, thesaurus, can be suffixed with the English plural suffix -es, to form another correct plural form of thesaurus, thesauruses. Thesaurusi is a rare error.