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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vocativus.
Noun
vocativus m (plural vocativi or vocativussen)
- (grammar) the vocative case or a word therein
Synonyms
Latin
Etymology
From vocō (“to call, summon”) + -īvus (adjectival suffix). A calque of Ancient Greek κλητῐκή (klētikḗ).
Pronunciation
Adjective
vocātīvus (feminine vocātīva, neuter vocātīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- (grammar) of or belonging to calling, vocative
- (masculine noun, scilicet casus) vocative case, vocative
- 1855, Grammatici latini ex recensione Henrici Keilii vol. II: Prisciani institutionum grammaticarum libri I-XII ex recensione Martini Hertzii. Lipsiae, page 186 (= Priscianus, Institutiones grammaticae, page 671 P.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “vocativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vocativus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.