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Grammatical construction in Ancient Greek
Greek grammar, the genitive absolute is a grammatical construction consisting of a participle and often a noun both in the genitive case, which is very
Genitive_absolute
Grammatical case
In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated gen) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus
Genitive_case
Word or phrase separable from adjacent syntax
genitive absolute in Greek, dative absolute in Old English, Gothic and Old Church Slavonic, locative absolute in Sanskrit and instrumental absolute in
Absolute_construction
English grammatical structure
verb. Its analogues are the ablative absolute in Latin, the genitive absolute in Greek, or the locative absolute in Sanskrit. A noun in the common case
Nominative_absolute
Part of Latin grammar
absolute construction in Latin is called an "ablative absolute" and is comparable to the Greek genitive absolute or the English nominative absolute.
Latin_syntax
Categorization of nouns and modifiers by function
the object of a preposition, for an absolute disjunct, and sometimes for the complement of a copula. The genitive case (possessive pronouns such as my/mine
Grammatical_case
Linguistic component of Ancient Greek
is in a construction known as the "genitive absolute", when the participle and its subject are placed in the genitive case. This construction is used when
Ancient_Greek_verbs
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
Faculté de Philosophie de l'Université de Leipzig [= On the Use of the Genitive Absolute in Sanskrit: Doctoral thesis presented to the Philosophy Department
Ferdinand_de_Saussure
Grammatical construction
adverbially with participles of impersonal verbs, similarly to the genitive absolute. For example: συνδόξαν sundóxan seeming good-ACC τῷ tôi the-MASC.DAT
Accusative_absolute
Ancient Sanskrit grammarian
his De l'emploi du génitif absolu en sanscrit (On the Use of the Genitive Absolute in Sanskrit) published in 1881, he specifically mentions Panini as
Pāṇini
Medieval stage of the Greek language
which replaced the old future forms. Ancient formations like the genitive absolute, the accusative and infinitive and nearly all common participle constructions
Medieval_Greek
Grammatical form
distinguished: (1) Genitive absolute: the participle modifies a noun or pronoun (as if its "subject") that stands in the genitive case; in this construction
Participle_(Ancient_Greek)
Extinct Northwest Semitic language
principle be expressed in two ways: 1. “the house” (absolute state) “of the king” (absolute state, genitive). This might be called the ‘Latin’ way of expression
Ugaritic
Morphological form of a noun
In Afro-Asiatic languages, the first noun in a genitive phrase that consists of a possessed noun followed by a possessor noun often takes on a special
Construct_state
Sounds and pronunciation of Ancient Greek
was dropped in Ancient Greek, as in ποίημα (from ποίηματ; compare the genitive singular ποιήματος). Other consonants may end a word, however, when a final
Ancient_Greek_phonology
Grammatical use indicating possession
of genitive. For example, the genitive construction "speed of the car" is equivalent to the possessive form "the car's speed". However, the genitive construction
Possessive
Part of Latin grammar
to one of these specific five patterns. For example, nouns that have a genitive singular form that ends in -ae are said to belong to "the first declension"
Latin_declension
Part of grammar in ancient Greek
original speech, has been changed to a present participle using the genitive absolute construction. The aorist tense main verb has been changed into the
Ancient Greek conditional clauses
Ancient_Greek_conditional_clauses
Grammar of the Old Irish language
kill them.) Genitive and possessive modifiers of verbal nouns exhibit behaviour analogous with that of an ergative–absolutive language. Genitive modifiers
Old_Irish_grammar
Gelon Gelon of Laconia Gelos Geminus Gemon Generation of Animals Genitive absolute Genos Genus (music) Geocentric model Geography of the Odyssey Geometric
Index of ancient Greece-related articles
Index_of_ancient_Greece-related_articles
Grammar of the Latin language
to guess the genitive of a noun from the nominative: dux "leader" has genitive ducis but rēx "king" has rēgis; pater "father" has genitive patris but iter
Latin_grammar
Extinct Semitic language of Mesopotamia
The city's governor A genitive relation can also be expressed with the relative preposition ša, and the noun that the genitive phrase depends on appears
Akkadian_language
Inflection of words according to number, gender, and/or case
number (e.g. singular, dual, plural), case (e.g. nominative, accusative, genitive, or dative), gender (e.g. masculine, feminine, or neuter), and a number
Declension
Declensions in Hindi and Urdu
accusative, dative, genitive, and oblique). The oblique case in pronouns has three subdivisions: Regular, Ergative, and Genitive. There are eight case-marking
Hindustani_declension
System of suffixes of Classical Arabic
in the written Arabic and are never pronounced with the ending -an. The genitive case (al-majrūr, ٱلْمَجْرُورُ) Objects of prepositions. Construct case:
ʾIʿrab
Extinct Italic language of central Italy
the genitive may either be functioning as a genitive of characteristic or as a partitive genitive. The objective genitive, in which the genitive functions
Umbrian_language
Grammar of the Modern Greek language
The merger of the dative and the genitive case. In Greek, indirect objects are expressed partly through genitive forms of nouns or pronouns, and partly
Modern_Greek_grammar
Grammatical case
In grammar, the absolutive case (abbreviated abs) is the case of nouns in ergative–absolutive languages that would generally be the subjects of intransitive
Absolutive_case
Grammatical case
of transitive verbs and possessors of nouns. This syncretism with the genitive is commonly referred to as the relative case. Nez Perce has a three-way
Ergative_case
Feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages
Koine and Modern), this can be done by placing the compared noun in the genitive case. With superlatives, the population being considered may be explicitly
Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Degrees_of_comparison_of_adjectives_and_adverbs
Grammar of the Romanian language
declensions have been reduced to only three forms (nominative/accusative, genitive/dative, and vocative) from the original six or seven. Another, that is
Romanian_grammar
Northeast Caucasian language
rich case system. There are six non-spatial cases (Absolutive, Ergative, First Genitive, Second Genitive, Dative, Instrumental) as well as 35 spatial cases
Hinuq_language
Grammar of the Arabic language
aḍ-ḍamā’ir al-muttaṣilah) are used both as accusative and genitive forms of the pronouns. As genitive forms they appear in the following contexts: After the
Arabic_grammar
Aspect of the Irish language
has five noun declensions, each with four cases (nominative, vocative, genitive, dative), and singular and plural forms. There are four classes of declension
Irish_declension
Oldest living male in an ancient Roman household
preserving the old genitive ending in -ās (see Latin declension), whereas in classical Latin the normal first declension genitive singular ending was
Pater_familias
Words in Kurukh that substitute for a noun or noun phrase
stem into a functional oblique base before case markers are added. The genitive system in Kurukh operates through a case-splitting pattern that changes
Pronouns_in_Kurukh
Declination patterns for nouns in the Finnish language
that have two vowel stems, the weak vowel stem comes from the genitive singular. The genitive indicates possession. It is also used preceding postpositions
Finnish_noun_cases
appears between the nominative and genitive cases. Nominal declension involves six main cases – nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental
Russian_grammar
English language during the Middle Ages
their genitive forms with -e or no ending (e.g., fole hoves, horses' hooves), and nouns of relationship ending in -er frequently have no genitive ending
Middle_English
Incipit used in Genesis 1:1
prepositional suffix) and rēʾšît (a noun). As a result, this forms part of a genitive phrase, leading to a linguistic and exegetical translation of this word
In_the_beginning_(phrase)
the Dutch language, but few of them are productive. One exception is the genitive case, which is still productive to a certain extent. Although in the spoken
Archaic_Dutch_declension
One of the six grammatical cases of nouns in Latin
adjective or genitive that expresses a quality that something has: vir summā virtūte "a gentleman of highest virtue". Ablative absolute describes the
Ablative_(Latin)
Set of words within the Turkish language
The following are used after the genitive pronouns benim, bizim, senin, sizin, onun, and kimin, and after the absolute case of other pronouns and nouns:
Turkish_vocabulary
Case specifying the use of the object form of pronouns
preposition (except in possessives): That picture of me was blurry. (cf. double genitive as in That picture of mine was stolen.) in copular deixis: [referring to
Oblique_case
Religious concept
hettema Romans 11:12). A further ambiguity arises when it is joined with a genitive, which may be either subjective or objective, the fullness which one thing
Pleroma
Constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere
but to the idiosyncrasies of their color sensitivities. Capella has an absolute magnitude of 0.3 and a luminosity of 160 times the luminosity of the Sun
Auriga
Grammar of the Turkish language
dative and an anomalous genitive. All personal pronouns aside from onlar form their instrumental with the genitive form. The absolute case is generally needed
Turkish_grammar
Language syntax classification
contrary to typical ergative–absolutive languages insofar as they mark both agent and nominal attribute as genitive (ergative-genitive, the "b" marker). Examples
Milewski's_typology
Grammatical case indicating a location
Indo-European languages, the locative case merged into other cases (often genitive or dative) in form and/or function, but some daughter languages retained
Locative_case
Declensions in the Gothic language
genitive case, which expresses possession, measurement, or source. The English possessive suffix enclitic "–'s" is derived from an earlier genitive case
Gothic_declension
Part of speech that defines a noun or pronoun
(as are native verbs), although nouns (an open class) may be used in the genitive to convey some adjectival meanings, and there is also the separate open
Adjective
Grammatical relationship between arguments
with an ergative case (or sometimes an oblique case used also for the genitive or instrumental case roles) while the S argument of an intransitive verb
Morphosyntactic_alignment
Grammatical case denoting "partialness", "without result" or "without specific identity"
used, since like in Finnish, the total object form coincides with the genitive in the singular, and the nominative in the plural. In many Estonian words
Partitive_case
Grammatical case
thereafter with some of its functions taken by the genitive and others by the dative. The genitive case with the prepositions ἀπό apó 'away from' and
Ablative_case
Supreme legislative body of Sweden
Swedish use, riksdagen is usually not capitalised. Riksdag derives from the genitive of rike, referring to royal power, and dag, meaning diet or conference;
Riksdag
Most widely spoken of all Sámi languages
accusative/genitive singular form. A noun in the comitative plural is preceded by a demonstrative in either the comitative or the accusative/genitive plural
Northern_Sámi
î[i], û[u], i[I], u[ʊ], ê[e], o[o], e[æ], a[ɑ]. A Kurdish noun in the absolute state, i.e. without any ending of any kind, gives a generic sense of the
Central_Kurdish_grammar
Process of word formation, by alteration to express grammatical categories
preceded by the separate words more and most, respectively – a non-inflected genitive construction). There are eight regular inflectional affixes in the English
Inflection
Grammar of standard Tibetian
deduced from the context. Tibetan nouns are marked for six cases: absolutive, agentive, genitive, ablative, associative and oblique. Particles are attached to
Modern_Lhasa_Tibetan_grammar
Extinct ancient language of Mesopotamia
equative. In the absolutive singular, Suffixaufnahme would be meaningless, as the case and number are unmarked. When more than two genitives occur, they are
Hurrian_language
Grammar of the Basque language
-gana, and ablative -gandik, affixed to either the possessive genitive or the absolutive: nigan 'in me', irakaslearengana 'to(wards) the teacher' (irakasle
Basque_grammar
Great (genitive form) ΑΡΣΑΚΟΥ = Arsaces (genitive form) ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ = Euergetes, the Benefactor (genitive form) ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΟΣ = Autokratōr, absolute ruler
Royal formula of Parthian coinage
Royal_formula_of_Parthian_coinage
North Germanic language
inflected language with four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. Icelandic nouns can have one of three grammatical genders: masculine,
Icelandic_language
Group of Celtic languages of Brittany, Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man
verb–subject–object word order, singular verbs with plural post-verbal subjects, a genitive construction similar to construct state, prepositions with fused inflected
Insular_Celtic_languages
Grammar of the Swedish language
accusative and dative form) and genitive forms. Nouns make no distinction between subject and object forms, and the genitive is formed by adding -s to the
Swedish_grammar
Hierarchical level in biological classification
the Prokaryotic Code, and the Code for Viruses) all require absolute ranks, but absolute ranks are not required in all nomenclatural systems—the PhyloCode
Taxonomic_rank
Grammatical usage debate
"quasi-substantive" adverb læs and the genitive worda ("less of words") (cf. plenty of words and *plenty words). When the genitive plural ceased to exist, less
Fewer_versus_less
Scientific study of the Romance languages
are predominantly of the head-first (right-branching) type. Adjectives, genitives and relative clauses all tend to follow their head noun, although (except
Romance_linguistics
Northeast Caucasian language
the two genitive cases, the first is used as attribute to an absolutive head noun and the second to an oblique one. That means, that the Genitive 1 is used
Tsez_language
Grammatical case
school, inside the building). In Estonian, the ending -l is added to the genitive case, e.g. laud (table) - laual (on the table). Besides the meaning "on"
Adessive_case
Cushitic language
'earth', lafti Genitive The genitive is used for possession or "belonging"; it corresponds roughly to English of or -'s. The genitive is usually formed
Oromo_language
Declined according to case, state, gender and number
are declined according to the following properties: Case (nominative, genitive, and accusative) State (indefinite, definite or construct) Gender (masculine
Arabic_nouns_and_adjectives
Zodiac constellation straddling the celestial equator
magnitude 4.69 and an absolute magnitude 2.4. π Aquarii, also called Seat, is spectral type B0 with apparent magnitude 4.66 and absolute magnitude −4.1. Twelve
Aquarius_(constellation)
Grammatical case
group of prepositions which are termed compound mark their objects with genitive case, these prepositions being historically derived from the fusion of
Adpositional_case
Theory in linguistic typology
separate in some paradigms; Irish also has a genitive and vocative case. In Punjabi, the accusative, genitive, and dative have merged to an oblique case
Case_hierarchy
Fictional language of dwarves in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
delving. Khuzdul appears to have case endings with nominative and accusative/genitive cases, and perhaps an adjectival suffix. Nouns and adjectives may have
Khuzdul
Eastern Iranian language of Ossetia, in the Caucasus
endings is the genitive case form. The 1st and 2nd persons plural have only one stem each, functioning as both nominative and genitive. The third person
Ossetian_language
*[S]aku) Accusative (e.g., PAN *i-ak-ən) Genitive 1 (e.g., PAN *=[a]ku) Genitive 2 (e.g., PAN *(=)m-aku) Genitive 3 (e.g., PAN *n-aku) The following is from
Personal pronouns in Austronesian languages
Personal_pronouns_in_Austronesian_languages
Grammatical case
case is typically formed by adding -ssa/-ssä. Estonian adds -s to the genitive stem. In Moksha -са (-sa) is added (in Erzya -со (-so)). In Hungarian,
Inessive_case
Linguistic phenomenon whereby a language allows multiple cases suffixed on the same head
is a linguistic phenomenon used in forming a genitive construction, whereby prototypically a genitive noun agrees with its head noun. The term Suffixaufnahme
Suffixaufnahme
Type of language morphology
of friend friend will for I make birth day egg cake Meaning tomorrow I (genitive particle(='s)) friend will for I make birthday cake "Tomorrow my friend(s)
Synthetic_language
Grammatical case
covers the roles of accusative, dative and objects of a preposition. The genitive case is then usually called the possessive form, rather than a noun case
Nominative_case
Grammar of the Old Church Slavonic language
after five, and with certain pronouns, in the form of the partitive genitive. The genitive may be used as the complement of the 'verb to'[clarification needed]
Old_Church_Slavonic_grammar
Linguistic system of noun classification
its genitive singular form is Sees, but when it is feminine (meaning "sea"), the genitive is See, because feminine nouns do not take the genitive -s.
Grammatical_gender
Customs and traditions of ancient Rome
"way of the ancestors"; pl.: mores, cf. English "mores"; maiorum is the genitive plural of "greater" or "elder") is the unwritten code from which the ancient
Mos_maiorum
Stylistic device
cases as follows: "Iuppiter" (nominative), "Iovem" (accusative), "Iovis" (genitive), "Iovi" (dative), and "Iove" (ablative). The form is relatively common
Polyptoton
Grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to which something is given
spite of), während (during), and wegen (because of) which require the genitive in modern formal language, are most commonly used with the dative in colloquial
Dative_case
Grammatical case
language, typically oblique or genitive. The direct case is often imprecisely called the "nominative" in South Asia and "absolutive" in the Philippines, but
Direct_case
stars in the constellation Boötes, sorted by decreasing brightness. The genitive for stars in this constellation is Boötis and the IAU abbreviation is Boo
List_of_stars_in_Boötes
First verse of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis
prefix, resh is a noun, meaning 'head'. As a result, this forms part of a genitive phrase, leading to a linguistic and exegetical translation of this word
Genesis_1:1
Grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb
The PIE accusative case has nearly eroded in Russian, merging with the genitive or the nominative in most declensions. Only singular first-declension nouns
Accusative_case
Language
nominative cases are identical. The genitive case, which expresses possession, measurement, or source. In English, the genitive case is represented analytically
Old_High_German_declension
example, the genitive). In this use, 'verbal case' is nearly synonymous with 'case', as in most languages with case, all cases but the genitive are governed
Verbal_case
Grammar of the Somali language
a consonant take the suffix -i in nominative case without an article. Genitive case is generally indicated through a tonal change. Some feminine nouns
Somali_grammar
Zodiac constellation in the northern hemisphere
the primary is an A-type star with an absolute magnitude of 0.2 and the secondary is a B9-type star with an absolute magnitude of 0.4. The angle between
Aries_(constellation)
Reconstructed ancestor of the Afroasiatic language family
Proto-Semitic. This gives a nominative ending*-u, accusative or absolutive *-a, and genitive *-i. Besides Proto-Semitic, evidence for these endings is derived
Proto-Afroasiatic_language
a genitive noun phrase which would translate to "people's lord;" or a subject–verb phrase which would translate to "the people govern." The genitive-noun-phrase
Democracy_in_China
Northeast Caucasian language native to Russia
Chechen is an ergative, dependent-marking language using eight cases (absolutive, genitive, dative, ergative, allative, instrumental, locative and comparative)
Chechen_language
Grammatical case
I go (using any kind of vehicle) škola = school, do školy = to school (genitive) autobus = a bus → autobusem = by bus The instrumental in Armenian is denoted
Instrumental_case
Latest stage of the Egyptian language
In all stages of Egyptian, this morpheme is also used to express the genitive; for example, the Bohairic word for 'Egyptian', ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ /remənkʰeːmə/
Coptic_language
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Sensitive
Girl/Female
Hindu
Sensitive
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Sensitive
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh, Telugu
Soft Sensitive
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Telugu
Tender; Sensitive
Girl/Female
Tamil
Sensitive
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Sensitive
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Sensitive; Sentimental
Girl/Female
Indian
Sensitive
Surname or Lastname
Italian
Italian : from the personal name Gentile, a continuation of Late Latin Gentilis meaning ‘of the same stock (Latin gens)’ and then ‘non-Christian’, ‘pagan’; as a medieval name it was an omen name with the sense ‘noble’, ‘courteous’, also ‘delicate’, ‘charming’, ‘graceful’ (Italian gentile). In some cases the surname may have arisen from a nickname, sometimes possibly ironical, from the same word.English : variant of Gentle.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Sensitive
Girl/Female
Tamil
Lajwanti | லாஜவநà¯à®¤à¯€
A sensitive plant
Lajwanti | லாஜவநà¯à®¤à¯€
Girl/Female
Hindu
A sensitive plant
Girl/Female
British, English
Thoughtful; Sensitive
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Sensitive
Girl/Female
Gaelic, German, Irish
Dark; Diminutive; Sensitive
Girl/Female
Celtic, German
Race of Women; White Wave
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Sensitive
Boy/Male
Muslim
Sensitive
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Sensitive; Affectionate; Imaginative
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
Girl/Female
Tamil
Adoration
Boy/Male
Tamil
True friend, Limited
Boy/Male
Hindu
Name of Lord dutta
Girl/Female
Tamil
Sarvagjna | ஸரà¯à®µà®¾à®•à¯à®œà®¨à®¾Â
Goddess Durga
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
Mantra of Lord Shiva
Girl/Female
Indian
Suitable for worship, Name for Krishna
Boy/Male
Latin
God of wine.
Boy/Male
German
Soldier who wields an axe.
Boy/Male
Polish
Warlike.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Jivitesh | ஜீவிதேஷÂ
God
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
n.
That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative.
a.
Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.
a.
Punitive.
a.
Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.
a.
Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.
a.
Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive.
n.
A mild purgative; a laxative.
a.
Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.
a.
Sensitive; excitable; timid.
n.
A medicine or application that has the quality of easing pain or protecting from the action of irritants.
a.
Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.
a.
Denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective.
a.
Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
v. t.
Accountable; responsible; sensitive.
n.
A lenitive; an emollient.
n.
The genitive case.
a.
Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive.
a.
Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
n.
The quality of being lenitive.
a.
Possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb.