genitive
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Is genitive a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the generation of offspring; generative, procreative, reproductive.Synonyms: progenitivearchaicnot-comparable
2. (grammar)Examples: "dependent genitive"; "independent genitive"; "The student who had taken a German exam realised his error afterwards. He had used the dative case instead of the genitive case to show possession."not-comparable
3. (grammar)not-comparable
noun (English)
1. (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of genitive case (“a grammatical case used to express a relationship of origin or possession”).Examples: "Nounes, Pronounes, and Participles are declin'd vvith ſix Endings, vvhich are called Caſes, both in the Singular and Plural Number. The Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accuſative, Vocative, and Ablative. […] The Genitive is Engliſht vvith this Sign of, as Libri of a Book."abbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsisuncountable
2. (countable) A word inflected in the genitive case, and which thus indicates origin or possession.Examples: "This one vvord familia joyn'd vvith pater, mater, filius, or filia, endeth the Genitive in as, as pater familias, but ſomtimes familiæ."; "This older kind of genetive [i.e., the direct genetive] is apparently expressed only by the position of the two substantives, in which the governing word stands before the governed: pr:Z1-i-mn:n-A40 pr i̓mn "House of Amon.""countable
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