vocative
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Late Middle English, from Middle French vocatif, from Latin vocativus (“calling”), from vocatus (“invocation”), from vocare (“to call”), from Proto-Indo-European *wek-, *wekʷ-, *wokʷ- (“give vocal utterance, speak”). See Latin vōx.
Adjective [edit]
vocative (comparative more vocative, superlative most vocative)
- Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
- (grammar) Used in address; appellative; — said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord.
Translations [edit]
of or pertaining to calling
grammar: used in address
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Noun [edit]
vocative (plural vocatives)
- (grammar) The vocative case
Translations [edit]
grammatical case — see vocative case
See also [edit]
Italian [edit]
Adjective [edit]
vocative f
- Feminine plural form of vocativo
Romanian [edit]
Noun [edit]
vocative n pl
- Plural form of vocativ
