Etymology

genitive absolute

Today it means: in Ancient Greek, more frequent than the accusative absolute and the nominative absolute Full definition →

Latin genitīvus absolūtus
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  1. Latin · calque ofgenitīvus absolūtus
  2. English todaygenitive absolute

Calque of Latin genitīvus absolūtus.

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