In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
NOMINATIVE
nominated, nominative
(adjective) appointed by nomination
nominative, nominal
(adjective) named; bearing the name of a specific person; “nominative shares of stock”
nominative
(adjective) serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb; “nominative noun endings”; “predicate nominative”
nominative, nominative case, subject case
(noun) the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
nominative (not comparable)
Giving a name; naming; designating.
(grammar) Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
Making a selection or nomination; choosing.
Noun
nominative (plural nominatives)
The nominative case.
A noun in the nominative case.
Source: Wiktionary
Nom"i*na*tive, a. Etym: [L. nominativus belonging to a name, nominative.] (Gram.)
Definition: Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
– n.
Definition: The nominative case.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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