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- Latin · calque ofaccūsātīvus cognātus“a cognate accusative”
- English todaycognate accusative
Calque of Latin accūsātīvus cognātus (“a cognate accusative”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
cognate accusative
cog·nate ac·cu·sa·tiveToday it means: An object of kindred sense or derivation; specifically, that which may adverbially follow an intransitive verb (for example, the word death in “to die the death”). Full definition →
Latin accūsātīvus cognātus