genetive

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A form of genitive — Of a grammatical case: in an inflected language (such as Greek or Latin), expressing that a thing denoted by a word is related to a thing denoted by another word as its origin or possessor; and in an uninflected language (such as English), expressing origin or possession; possessive.

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Meanings

adjectivegenetive (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableArchaic spelling of genitive.

    [T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it Irios in the genetiue caſe.

    1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called Meon or Mew”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 23, recto
noungenetive (plural genetives)

plural genetives

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of genitive.

    This older kind of genetive [i.e., the direct genetive] is apparently expressed only by the position of the two substantives, in which the governing word stands before the governed: pr:Z1-i-mn:n-A40 pr i̓mn "House of Amon."

    1894, Adolf Erman, “Nouns”, in James Henry Breasted, transl., Egyptian Grammar […], London; Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, […], →OCLC, § 122*, page 49

Origin

A variant of genitive; compare Latin genetīvus with genitīvus.

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Chicago

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