Genitive

Definitions

1. Ellipsis of genitive case (“a grammatical case used to express a relationship of origin or possession”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
2. A word inflected in the genitive case, and which thus indicates origin or possession.
   countable

Equivalents

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.”

“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."”

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