nominative

[±Nominative]

a grammatical feature in many languages used to mark the case of a noun being used as subject in the sentence; this is the citation form of the noun — the spelling as found in the dictionary, e.gg., “Roma” (1st declension), “Julius” (2nd declension); cf. Chapter 1, §3, ¶3 & Chapter 3, §1, ¶6