genetive

English

Etymology

Corrected form of genitive after the original Latin genetivus .

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      		 i mn
      n      		 A40
      - pr i̓mn “House of Amon.”

Latin

Noun

genetive

  1. vocative singular of genetivus
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