v.
  - put forward as a candidate for election or for an honour or award. 
▸appoint to a job or position.
 - specify formally.
 
adj.
 Zoology  & 
Botany  denoting a race or subspecies having the same epithet as the species to which it belongs, e.g. 
Homo sapiens sapiens.
 
  Derivative
  
    - nomination n.
  - nominator n.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME (as an adj. in the sense ‘named’): from L. nominat-, nominare ‘to name’, from nomen, nomin- ‘a name’.