genetive

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English

Etymology

Alternative form of genitive, compare Latin genetivus with genitivus.

Noun

genetive (plural genetives)

  1. (rare) Alternative spelling of genitive
    • 1894, James Henry Breasted tr. Adolf Erman, Egyptian Grammar
      This older kind of genetive is apparently expressed only by the position of the two substantives, in which the governing word stands before the governed:
      pr
      Z1      		 imn
      n      		 A40
      - pr i̓mn “House of Amon.”

Latin

Noun

genetīve

  1. vocative singular of genetīvus
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