nominative

(nŏmˈə-nāˌtĭv)

1. a. Appointed to office.
   b. Nominated as a candidate for office.
2. Having or bearing a person's name: nominative shares.
3. (-nə-tĭv) Grammar Of, relating to, or being the case of the subject of a finite verb (as I in I wrote the letter) and of words identified with the subject of a copula, such as a predicate nominative (as children in These are his children).

1. The nominative case.
2. A word or form in the nominative case.