genetive

English

Etymology

A variant of genitive; compare Latin genetīvus with genitīvus.

Adjective

genetive (not comparable)

1. Archaic spelling of genitive.
   • 1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called Meon or Mew”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 23, recto:

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

Noun

genetive (plural genetives)

1. Archaic spelling of genitive.
   • 1894, Adolf Erman, “Nouns”, in James Henry Breasted, transl., Egyptian Grammar […], London; Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, […], →OCLC, § 122*, page 49:

     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 i̓mn "House of Amon."

Latin

Noun

genetīve

1. vocative singular of genetīvus