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Genetive

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of genitive. alt-of, archaic, not-comparable

    "[T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it Irios in the genetiue caſe."

Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of genitive. alt-of, archaic

    "This older kind of genetive [i.e., the direct genetive] is apparently expressed only by the position of the two substantives, in which the governing word stands before the governed: pr:Z1-i-mn:n-A40 pr i̓mn "House of Amon.""

Etymology

Etymology 1

A variant of genitive; compare Latin genetīvus with genitīvus.

Etymology 2

A variant of genitive; compare Latin genetīvus with genitīvus.

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