cognate accusative

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WOTD – 30 December 2017

Etymology

Calque of Latin accūsātīvus cognātus (“a cognate accusative”).

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Noun

cognate accusative (plural cognate accusatives)

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  1. (grammar) 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”).
    • 1856, John Day Collis, “Division III. Exercises on the Commonest Rules of Greek Syntax.”, in Praxis Græca. A Series of Elementary, Progressive, and Miscellaneous Questions and Exercises on Greek Grammar, part II (Syntax), London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, →OCLC, exercise LXXVIII, paragraph 11, page 214:
      These accusatives cognate are to be translated into English.
    • 1874, Henry John Roby, “Use of the Accusative Case”, in A Grammar of the Latin Language from Plautus to Suetonius In Two Parts, part II (Containing Book IV. Syntax. Also Prepositions &c.), London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, paragraph 1100, page 40:
      The extent of action of the verb may be expressed by a substantive of the same meaning as the verb, accompanied (usually) by an oblique adjectival predicate. (Cognate accusative.)
    • 1876, C P Mason, “Syntax”, in English Grammar Including the Principles of Grammatical Analysis, 21st edition, London: George Bell & Sons, →OCLC; 21st Canadian copyright edition, Toronto, Ont.: Adam Miller & Co., 1877, →OCLC, section 372, subsection 4, page 148:
      What is often termed the cognate accusative (or objective) (as in ‘to run a race,’ ‘to die a happy death’) should more properly be classed among the adverbial adjuncts. [Footnote: The cognate objective sometimes appears in a metaphorical shape, as in “to look daggers at a person”; “To rain fire and brimstone.” The vague pronoun it is freely used in this construction, as, “We shall have to rough it”; “Go it, boys,” &c.]

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  1. ^ Ernest Hemingway (1929) chapter XXI, in A Farewell to Arms, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 149.
  2. ^ William Shakespeare (c. 1599) “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 117, column 1: “Cowards dye many times before their deaths, / The valiant neuer taſte of death but once: […]”

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cognāte accūsātīve m

  1. vocative singular of cognātus accūsātīvus
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