Definitions for genitives

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genitives gen·i·tive

Spelling: [jen-i-tiv]

IPA: /ˈdʒɛn ɪ tɪv/

Genitives is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 241 anagrams from letters in genitives (eegiinstv).

Definitions for genitives

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 genitives

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

Examples for genitives

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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