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单词 genitival
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genitivaladj.

Brit. /ˌdʒɛnᵻˈtʌɪvl/, U.S. /ˌdʒɛnəˈtaɪvəl/
Forms: 1800s– genetival, 1800s– genitival.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: genitive n., -al suffix1.
Etymology: < genitive n. + -al suffix1.
Grammar.
Of or relating to the genitive case.
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genitivec1400
genitival1806
possessival1873
1806 C. Heath Monmouthshire: Hist. & Descriptive Accts. Tintern Abbey 8 Cheltenham is certainly a corruption of Celtan ham, the hamlet of the Celt-e... Instances, however, of these genitival forms are now extremely rare.
1818 Monthly Mag. 46 322 Instead of the genitival and datival terminations, of and to, were prefixed to the nominative.
1884 Sat. Rev. 7 June 760/1 The genitival an so frequent in Anglo-Saxon place-names.
1904 H. Bradley Making of Eng. ii. 59 There are in Old English a few special instances in which of has a genitival sense..but the use of the preposition as a regular sign of the genitive first appears in the twelfth century.
1959 A. M. Guthrie & C. A. M. Hall tr. O. Cullmann Christol. New Test. (1963) iv. ix. 263 The Johannine prologue does not speak of the ‘Word of God’, but simply of the Logos, the Word, without the genitival qualification.
2009 G. J. Dimmendaal Coding Participant Marking 322 There appear to be two types of genitival constructions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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