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Definition of Genitive

1. Adjective. Serving to express or indicate possession. "The genitive endings"

Definition of Genitive

1. a. Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.

2. n. The genitive case.

Definition of Genitive

1. Adjective. (grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English. ¹

2. Noun. (grammar) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession. ¹

3. Noun. (grammar) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Genitive

1. a grammatical case [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genitive

Literary usage of Genitive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"This relation is most frequently expressed in English by the preposition of, sometimes by the English genitive (or possessive) case : — libr! ..."

2. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"Attributive genitive. 1. A noun or pronoun in the genitive may modify a noun. In the oldest period the genitive usually preceded the governing noun. ..."

3. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1892)
"A genitive sometimes accompanies a POSSESSIVE, especially the genitive of ... genitive with Adjectives. 399. Many adjectives take a genitive to complete ..."

4. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1892)
"A genitive sometimes accompanies a POSSESSIVE, especially the genitive of ipse, solus, ... genitive with Adjectives. 399. Many adjectives take a genitive to ..."

5. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius (1859)
"With proper names, which are generally in themselves sufficiently definite, the genitive is seldom used for limitation or restriction. ..."

6. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1891)
"(2) It may be of the same kind as the genitive with a Noun : eg the construction with avri may be the same as with the Adverbs avrà, ..."

7. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"The partitive genitive is used with verbs signifying to fill, ... 895. genitive of Price and Value. — The genitive is used ..."

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