Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/October 17

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Word of the day
for October 17
genitive adj
  1. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the generation of offspring; generative, procreative, reproductive.
  2. (grammar)
    1. 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.
    2. Of, pertaining to, or used in the genitive case.

genitive n (grammar)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Short for genitive case (“a grammatical case used to express a relationship of origin or possession”).
  2. (countable) A word inflected in the genitive case, and which thus indicates origin or possession.

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