vocative
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Late Middle English from Middle French vocatif < Latin vocativus (“‘calling’”) < vocatus (“‘invocation’”) < vocare (“‘to call’”) < Proto-Indo-European *wek- (“‘give vocal utterance, speak’”).
[edit] Adjective
vocative (comparative more vocative, superlative most vocative)
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- 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.
[edit] Translations
of or pertaining to calling
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grammar: used in address
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[edit] Noun
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vocative (plural vocatives)
- (grammar) The vocative case
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grammatical case
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[edit] See also
[edit] Italian
[edit] Adjective
vocative f.
- Feminine plural form of vocativo
[edit] Romanian
[edit] Noun
vocative n. pl.
- Plural form of vocativ.
