Definitions for datives

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datives da·tive

Spelling: [dey-tiv]

IPA: /ˈdeɪ tɪv/

Datives is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 252 anagrams from letters in datives (adeistv).

Definitions for datives

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 datives

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

Examples for datives

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

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

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

The translator has here mistaken a dative for an Accusative.

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

Either accusative or dative would be acceptable enough with latere.

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

At present they are dative forms with an accusative meaning.

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

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