Nominativus-pendens Definition
noun
(grammar) A noun phrase, introduced as if the subject of a sentence, that is not actually used as such.
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(rhetoric) Intentional use of such a construction.
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Origin of Nominativus-pendens
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From Latin nominativus (“nominative case”) + pendens (“hanging, waiting”)
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