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Definition of Genitive case
1. Noun. The case expressing ownership.
Generic synonyms: Oblique, Oblique Case
Specialized synonyms: Attributive Genitive, Attributive Genitive Case
Definition of Genitive case
1. Noun. (grammar) Noun case used to express some relationship such as possession or origin. It corresponds roughly to the English preposition "of." ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genitive Case
| geniting genitings genitival genitivally genitive genitive-accusative genitive-case genitive case (current term) genitive cases genitively | genitives genitoinguinal ligament genitories genitors |
Literary usage of Genitive case
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1885)
"I. — The genitive case in Sophokles. BY THOMAS D. GOO DELL, PH.D., PUBLIC HIGH
SCHOOL, HARTFORD, CONN. I. ON pedagogical as well as on other grounds the ..."
2. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"genitive case 341. The Genitive is regularly used to express the relation of one
noun to another. Hence it is sometimes called the adjective case, ..."
3. Historical Outlines of English Syntax by Leon Kellner (1913)
"The genitive case. Signification of the Genitive. § 158. First of all, we must
distinguish between the genitive governed by verbs, and that connected with ..."
4. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"ATTRIBUTIVE RELATION OF THE genitive case. § 485. A substantive in the possessive
case, or under the government of the preposition of, is said, ..."
5. The Mother Tongue by Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner (1901)
"The form Johns is said to be the genitive case of the noun John, and the ending
's is called a genitive ending. In like manner the first noun in each of the ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1845)
"148, " In silent chambers tears descend," were to call the latter of the two
nouns coming together, tears, in the genitive case, he would most likely be ..."
7. Greek Prose Composition by Henry Carr Pearson (1897)
"LESSON II THE genitive case 14. In its relation to another noun, the Genitive
may denote : 1. Possession (Possessive Genitive): T6 roi) ..."
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