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nom.

American  

abbreviation

  1. nominative.


nom. British  

abbreviation

  1. nominal

  2. nominative

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Second declension.—To this declension belong all masculine nouns whose nom. and acc. singular end in -e, which is the only difference between this and the first declension.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Wright, Joseph

By adding a to the nom. singular; as, dubhar m. a shadow, n. p. dubhara; rioghachd f. a kingdom, n. p. rioghachdan.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander

Now in ancient French the nom., corresponding to cantator, is chántere, but the gen. chanteór, and thus again a distinction is established of great importance for grammatical purposes.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

Ye, yē, pron. the nom. pl. of the 2d person—in old English ye was always used as a nominative, and you as a dative or accusative, as in the English Bible.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

The masculine ā-stems make the nom. in most dialects in -ᾱς.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

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