Genitive Definition

jĕnĭ-tĭv
adjective
Designating, of, or in a relational case typically expressing possession, source, or a partitive concept.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to an affix or construction, such as a prepositional phrase, characteristic of the genitive case.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
noun
The genitive case.
American Heritage
The genitive case: expressed by inflection in languages such as Latin and either by an analytical construction or by inflection in English (Ex.: the sons of the queen, the queen's sons)
Webster's New World
A word or phrase in this case.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Genitive

Noun

Singular:
genitive
Plural:
genitives

Origin of Genitive

  • Middle English genetif from Latin genetīvus from genitus past participle of gignere to beget genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Renaissance Latin casus genitīvus, literally "case pertaining to origin, birth", from genitus the perfect passive participle of gignō (“beget”).

    From Wiktionary

Genitive Sentence Examples

  • Some phonetic characteristics of the dialect may be regarded as quite certain; (I) the change of the original short o to a (as in the last syllable of the genitive kalatoras); (2) of final -m to -n (as in g ran); (3) of -ni- -ti- -si- respectively to -nn- -to- and -ss- as in dazohonnes " Dasonius," dazohonnihi " Dasonii"; dazetOes, gen.

  • All tenses of reflexive verbs except the imperative and present participle are formed by prefixing the pronoun which indicates the object to the verb, in the dative or genitive case (abbreviated) as the verb may require; but in the reflexive imperative and present participle the verb precedes the pronoun; e.g.

  • Thus trying to promote to subject genitive objects [...] or dative objects [...] yields ungrammatical results.

  • There are three declensions, each with a definite and indefinite form; the genitive, dative and ablative are usually represented by a single termination; the vocative is formed by a final o, as memmo from memme, " mother."

  • The plant association is sometimes referred to in technical nguage;3 the termination -etum is added to the stem of the meric name, and the specific name is put in the genitive.

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Words Starting With

GGEGEN

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EVEIVE

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