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Vocative
Definitions
- 1 Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
- 2 Used in address; appellative; said of the case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective by which a person or thing is addressed.
"In English, the vocative may be indicated by an addressee–address separation comma, or by the particle O, as in "What is the matter, sir?", "Mother, listen!", or "O Lord"."
- 1 relating to a case used in some languages wordnet
- 1 The vocative case
- 2 the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed wordnet
- 3 A word in the vocative case
- 4 A vocative expression
- 5 Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation. rare
"[T]he two latter will hardly come neither, if they think it will be to hear your whining vocatives."
Etymology
From Late Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Middle French vocatif, from Latin vocātīvus (“for calling”); a calque of Ancient Greek κλητῐκή (klētĭkḗ, “for calling; vocative case”) – from vocāre (“to call”), from Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-, o-grade of *wekʷ- (“give vocal utterance, speak”). See Latin vōx.
From Late Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Middle French vocatif, from Latin vocātīvus (“for calling”); a calque of Ancient Greek κλητῐκή (klētĭkḗ, “for calling; vocative case”) – from vocāre (“to call”), from Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-, o-grade of *wekʷ- (“give vocal utterance, speak”). See Latin vōx.
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