Genitive

Quick meaning: Genitive is an adjective meaning Of, pertaining to, or used in the genitive case.

Meaning

Of, pertaining to, or used in the genitive case.

More Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of genitive case (“a grammatical case used to express a relationship of origin or possession”).
2. (countable) A word inflected in the genitive case, and which thus indicates origin or possession.
3. Of a grammatical case: in an inflected language (such as Greek or Latin), expressing that a thing denoted by a word is related to a thing denoted by another word as its origin or possessor; and in an uninflected language (such as English), expressing origin or possession; possessive.
4. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the generation of offspring; generative, procreative, reproductive.

Example Sentences

dependent genitive

independent genitive

[T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.

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.

Word Forms

• genetive
• genitives

Synonyms for genitive

Depending on context, synonyms include progenitive, possessive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include possessive, adnominal, epexegetical, partitive, genitival, possessival.

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