dativus
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
dativus m (plural dativi or dativussen)
Synonyms
Latin
Etymology
From dō (“to give”) + -īvus (adjective suffix), a calque of Ancient Greek δοτικός (dotikós).
Pronunciation
Adjective
datīvus (feminine datīva, neuter datīvum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | datīvus | datīva | datīvum | datīvī | datīvae | datīva | |
| genitive | datīvī | datīvae | datīvī | datīvōrum | datīvārum | datīvōrum | |
| dative | datīvō | datīvae | datīvō | datīvīs | |||
| accusative | datīvum | datīvam | datīvum | datīvōs | datīvās | datīva | |
| ablative | datīvō | datīvā | datīvō | datīvīs | |||
| vocative | datīve | datīva | datīvum | datīvī | datīvae | datīva | |
Descendants
References
- “dativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "dativus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- dativus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.