Definitions for genitive

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genitive gen·i·tive

Spelling: [jen-i-tiv]

IPA: /ˈdʒɛn ɪ tɪv/

Genitive is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in genitive (eegiintv).

Definitions for genitive

noun

1. the genitive case.
2. a word in the genitive case.
3. a construction noting this case or the relationship usually expressed by it.

adjective

1. (in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
2. noting an affix or other element characteristic of this case, or a word containing such an element.
3. similar to such a case form in function or meaning.

Origin of genitive

1350-1400; Middle English Medieval Latin genitīvus, equivalent to genit(us) (past participle of gignere to beget) + -īvus -ive

Examples for genitive

The names are in the genitive case, as if dependent on sigillum, 'seal.'

No preposition, in the present English, governs a genitive case.

With the genitive to be supplied: brec þonne mste, 1488; imp.

We have a genitive also in Flowerdew, found in French as Flourdieu.

The ejection of -na in the genitive plural; as of tunges for tungena.

The genitive of material is rather the use of a noun as an adjective.

And so we now have also the genitive Erin, as a poetical name of the island.

In this case writers have been puzzled how to form the genitive.

The genitive cases of the personal pronouns are most often adjectives.

Of this the root is anat-, as seen in the genitive case anatis.