Definitions for dative

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dative da·tive

Spelling: [dey-tiv]

IPA: /ˈdeɪ tɪv/

Dative is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in dative (adeitv).

Definitions for dative

noun

1. the dative case.
2. a word or form in that case, as Latin regi in regi haec dicite meaning “tell this to the king.”.

adjective

1. (in certain inflected languages, as Latin, Greek, and German) noting a case having as a distinctive function indication of the indirect object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions.

Origin of dative

1400-50; late Middle English datif Latin datīvus (casus) dative (case), equivalent to dat(us) given (see date¹) + -īvus -ive; trans

Examples for dative

The rule seems to have been disregarded when the leading Noun was in the dative.

At present they are dative forms with an accusative meaning.

The dative is used for the genitive, as will appear in the chapter on Syntax.

The dative case is but an ornamental folly—it is better to discard it.

Living Latin had only the feel of the cases: the ablative and dative emotion.

The substitution of -n for -m in the dative case, hwilon for hwilum.

The use of the dative him is a clear trace of the use of this phrase.

Either accusative or dative would be acceptable enough with latere.

Those in -em, -en generally retain the e in the dative plural.

The translator has here mistaken a dative for an Accusative.