| 单词 | ethic dative |
| 释义 | > as lemmasethic dative ethic dative n. [after post-classical Latin dativus ethicus (1822 or earlier)] Grammar (esp. in Latin or Greek) a use of the dative case signifying that the person denoted has an interest in or is indirectly affected by the event; cf. ethical dative n. at ethical adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > dative > ethic dative ethic dative1837 ethical dative1849 1832 J. Kenrick tr. C. G. Zumpt Gram. Lat. Lang. (ed. 3) 268 As it expresses a lively feeling it is called dativus ethicus.] 1837 T. Woolsey in tr. Sophocles Electra 80 The pleonastic, or ethic dative, as it is sometimes called. 1867 F. W. Farrar Greek Syntax (1870) 80 To this dative of reference belongs what is called the ethic (i.e. emotional) dative. 1919 PMLA 34 504 Nor does Gollancz's reading of me..as an ethic dative seem to me correct. 1996 Internat. Jrnl. Classical Trad. 3 177 Constructions like the ablative absolute or ethic dative can convey in one or two Latin words an idea which would require a phrase of at least six in German. < as lemmas |
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