Genitive

Definitions: Genitive

Genitive

Adjective

1. (grammar) serving to express or indicate possession; "possessive pronouns"; "the genitive endings".

Noun

1. The case expressing ownership.

Date "genitive" was first used: sometime in the late 14th century. (references)

Synonyms: Genitive

Synonyms: possessive (adj), genitive case (n), possessive case (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Genitive

English words defined with "genitive": attributive genitive, attributively ♦ Construct form ♦ Genitival, Genitive absolute, genitive case ♦ possessive, Possessive case ♦ -s. (references)

Etymologies containing "genitive": Adays, Against ♦ Paralipomenon ♦ Whence. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Genitive" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (genitives).

Domain	Title
Books	A Student Guide to the Genitive of Agentin Indo-European Languages (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monography No 14) (reference) Analytic Genitive in the Modern Arabic Dialects (reference) Genitive Variation in English: Conceptual Factors in Synchronic and Diachronic Studies (Topics in English Linguistics, 42) (reference) The genitive v. the of-construction : a study of syntactic variation in 17th century English (reference) The interaction between clause-level parameters and context in Russian morphosyntax : genitive of negation and predicate adjectives (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Genitive" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Genitive" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	75%	12	101,599
Adjective (general or positive)	25%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	16	N/A

Expressions using "genitive": attributive genitive ♦ Genitive absolute ♦ genitive case ♦ implicit genitive ♦ objective genitive. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "genitive": non-genitive, primo-genitive.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "genitive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gjinore (genitive case, sexual), rasa gjinore. (various references)

Arabic		‏مضاف اليه, ‏مضاف (construct state), ‏المجرور (object), ‏إضافة (accession, addendum, addition, apposition, bonus, extension, increment, rider, supplement). (various references)

Bulgarian		родителен падеж, родителен. (various references)

Czech		genitiv. (various references)

Farsi		ملکی مضاف الیهی , حالت مضاف الیه (Possessive), حالت مالکیت , حالت اضافه (Possessive). (various references)

Finnish		genetiivi (possessive). (various references)

French		génitif. (various references)

German		Genitiv. (various references)

Greek		γενική πτώση, γενική. (various references)

Hebrew		יחס �"סמיכות (genitive case). (various references)

Hungarian		birtokos eset (possessive, possessive case), birtokos (haver, holder, keeper, occupant, possessive, possessor, propertied, proprietary, proprietor). (various references)

Indonesian		genitif, genetif. (various references)

Italian		genitivo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		属� � (genitive case). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぞっかく (genitive case). (various references)

Manx		gienneydagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		enitivegay

Portuguese		órgãos genitais (genitals). (various references)

Romanian		genitiv. (various references)

Russian		родительный. (various references)

Scottish		na (all that, greater than that, let not, not, or, q.v., than, that, the, the genitive singular case of the art. before fem.n., the neg.part. before v. beginning with con., the nom. and dat.plur. case of the art. before n. beginning, those which, those who, was longer; na b' = past tense of na 's, what, where they, whom). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		genitivni, genitiv. (various references)

Spanish		genitivo, paternal (fatherly, parental, paternal). (various references)

Swedish		genitiv- (genitival, gentival), genitiv (possessive). (various references)

Turkish		genitif hâl (genitive case), -in hali (genitival, genitive case, possessive). (various references)

Ukranian		родовий (ancestral, clannish, generic, generical, lineal, patrimonial, race). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	genetikos. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	casus genitivus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "genitive": genitives. (additional references)
	Words ending with "genitive": philoprogenitive, polyphiloprogenitive. (additional references)
	Words containing "genitive": philoprogenitiveness, philoprogenitivenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Genitive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: geinitzi, genative, Genetiva, genetive, genichi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-i-n-t-v"
	-1 letter: eviting, invitee.
	-2 letters: ignite, invite, teeing, tieing.
	-3 letters: event, evite, genet, genie, genii, given, nieve, tenge, tinge, vegie, venge.
	-4 letters: even, gene, gent, gien, give, inti, neve, nevi, nite, teen, tine, ting, vein, vent, vine.
	-5 letters: eng, eve, gee, gen, get, gie, gin, git, nee, net, nit, tee, teg, ten, tie, tin, vee, veg, vet, vie, vig.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-i-n-t-v"
	+1 letter: genitives, ingestive.
	+2 letters: retrieving, televising, vertigines.
	+3 letters: denigrative, designative, germinative, integrative, intervening, investigate, longevities, overediting, reinventing, reinvesting, televiewing, timeserving, vinaigrette.
	+4 letters: evangelistic, eviscerating, fugitiveness, interleaving, interviewing, intervillage, interweaving, inveiglement, investigated, investigates, negativities, overexciting, precognitive, privateering, reinvigorate, timeservings, vinaigrettes.
	+5 letters: cantilevering, interrogative, introgressive, inveiglements, investigative, outdelivering, overdirecting, overingenuity, overweighting, overwintering, reinnervating, reintegrative, reinvestigate, reinvigorated, reinvigorates, sovereignties, vegetarianism, verbigeration.
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