nominative

nominativus

The case of the subject: who or what acts, or whom the sentence is about. In the prayers it often stands with an understood “is” — Latin likes to drop the copula.

It is the dictionary form of a noun in the singular — the one you find in the entry.

in the texts

Dóminus tecum

the Lord [is] with thee — the subject with an understood “est”.

Fiat volúntas tua

the will — the subject of the petition: what is to be done?

Glória Patri

glory [be] — a nominative with the verb left unexpressed.