nominate
verb
• propose or formally enter as a candidate for election or for an honour or award.
• "the film was nominated for several Oscars"
• specify (something) formally, typically the date or place for an event.
• "a day was nominated for the exchange of contracts"
nominate
adjective
• denoting a race or subspecies which is given the same epithet as the species to which it belongs, e.g. Homo sapiens sapiens.
• "the nominate race and two subspecies occur"
Origin:
late Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘named’): from Latin nominat- ‘named’, from the verb nominare, from nomen, nomin- ‘a name’. The verb senses are first found in English in the 16th century.
