An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
VOCATIVE
vocative
(adjective) relating to a case used in some languages; “vocative verb endings”
vocative, vocative case
(noun) the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
vocative (comparative more vocative, superlative most vocative)
Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
(grammar) Used in address; appellative (said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed). For example "Domine, O Lord"
Noun
vocative (plural vocatives)
(grammar) The vocative case
(grammar) A word in the vocative case
(rare) Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.
Source: Wiktionary
Voc"a*tive, a. Etym: [L. vocativus, fr. vocare to call.]
Definition: Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling; specifically (Gram.), used in address; appellative; -- said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord.
Voc"a*tive, n. Etym: [L. vocativus (sc. casus): cf. F. vocatif.] (Gram.)
Definition: The vocative case.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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