单词 | dative |
释义 | dative —datival /day tuy"veuhl/, adj. —datively, adv. /day"tiv/, Gram. adj. 1. (in certain inflected languages, as Latin, Greek, and German) noting a case having as a distinctive function indication of the indirect object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions. n. 2. the dative case. 3. a word or form in that case, as Latin regi in regi haec dicite meaning "tell this to the king." [1400-50; late ME datif < L dativus (casus) dative (case), equiv. to dat(us) given (see DATE1) + -ivus -IVE; trans. of Gk dotiké (ptôsis)] |
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