GENITIVE

possessive, genitive

(adjective) serving to express or indicate possession; “possessive pronouns”; “the genitive endings”

genitive, genitive case, possessive, possessive case

(noun) the case expressing ownership

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

genitive (not comparable)

(grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses a quality, origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.

Noun

genitive (countable and uncountable, plural genitives)

(grammar, uncountable) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.

(grammar, countable) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.

Source: Wiktionary

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Gen"i*tive, a. Etym: [L. genitivus, fr. gignere, genitum, to beget: cf. F. génitif. See Gender.] (Gram.)

Definition: Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.

Gen"i*tive, n. (Gram.)

Definition: The genitive case. Genitive absolute, a construction in Greek similar to the ablative absolute in Latin. See Ablative absolute.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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