Definitions for vocative

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vocative voc·a·tive

Spelling: [vok-uh-tiv]

IPA: /ˈvɒk ə tɪv/

Vocative is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in vocative (aceiotvv).

Definitions for vocative

noun

1. the vocative case.
2. a word in the vocative, as Latin Paule “O Paul.”.

adjective

1. Grammar. (in certain inflected languages, as Latin) noting or pertaining to a case used to indicate that a noun refers to a person or thing being addressed.
2. of, relating to, or used in calling, specifying, or addressing.

Origin of vocative

1400-50; late Middle English Latin vocātīvus (cāsus) calling (case), equivalent to vocāt(us) (see vocation) + -īvus Examples for vocative

The abandonment of the vocative for a new subject is artless.

Lado, the vocative of Lada, the goddess of love, in the old Slavonian mythology.

Agra or Agraw: a term of endearment; my love: vocative of Irish grdh, love.

The vocative is employed when a person or thing is addressed.

The Irish form of the first is tuathtach: of the second thuathchin (vocative).

The vocative is preceded by a, which signifies O, or by a personal pronoun.

It will be observed that the prefix Hil marks the vocative case.

That all nouns of the vocative case are of the second person.

"Anactoria," he saw, was vocative—and that was greatly significant.

The interjection of the vocative is with some hiua, and with others me.