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Grammatical construction in Ancient Greek
Greek grammar, the genitive absolute is a grammatical construction consisting of a participle and often a noun both in the genitive case, which is very
Genitive_absolute
Grammatical case
In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated gen) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus
Genitive_case
Word or phrase separable from adjacent syntax
genitive absolute in Greek, dative absolute in Old English, Gothic and Old Church Slavonic, locative absolute in Sanskrit and instrumental absolute in
Absolute_construction
English grammatical structure
verb. Its analogues are the ablative absolute in Latin, the genitive absolute in Greek, or the locative absolute in Sanskrit. A noun in the common case
Nominative_absolute
Linguistic component of Ancient Greek
is in a construction known as the "genitive absolute", when the participle and its subject are placed in the genitive case. This construction is used when
Ancient_Greek_verbs
Grammar of the Ancient Greek language
g.: φιλέει (philéei) > φιλεῖ (phileî) "he" or "she loves"; (c) in the genitive plural of all 1st declension nouns and all 3rd declension nouns of the
Ancient_Greek_grammar
Grammatical form
distinguished: (1) Genitive absolute: the participle modifies a noun or pronoun (as if its "subject") that stands in the genitive case; in this construction
Participle_(Ancient_Greek)
form changes to one of the five cases (nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, or dative). The set of forms that a noun will take for each case and number
Ancient_Greek_nouns
Part of Latin grammar
absolute construction in Latin is called an "ablative absolute" and is comparable to the Greek genitive absolute or the English nominative absolute.
Latin_syntax
-ος -os, have a genitive plural ending in -ῶν -ôn. This also applies to 1st declension adjectives, but only if the feminine genitive plural is different
Ancient_Greek_accent
Categorization of nouns and modifiers by function
the object of a preposition, for an absolute disjunct, and sometimes for the complement of a copula. The genitive case (possessive pronouns such as my/mine
Grammatical_case
Class of Ancient Greek verbs
Grammar Nouns Verbs Aorist Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory
Aorist_(Ancient_Greek)
Grammar Nouns Verbs Aorist Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory
Subjunctive_(Ancient_Greek)
Part of grammar in ancient Greek
original speech, has been changed to a present participle using the genitive absolute construction. The aorist tense main verb has been changed into the
Ancient Greek conditional clauses
Ancient_Greek_conditional_clauses
Lengthening of vowel sounds in place of a deleted consonant
*πάντ-σι → πᾶσι (masculine/neuter dative plural) compare παντ-ός (m./n. genitive singular) *όντ-ι̯ᾰ → *όντσα → οὖσα participle "being" (feminine nominative
Compensatory_lengthening
Grammatical mood of Ancient Greek verbs
Grammar Nouns Verbs Aorist Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory
Optative_(Ancient_Greek)
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
Faculté de Philosophie de l'Université de Leipzig [= On the Use of the Genitive Absolute in Sanskrit: Doctoral thesis presented to the Philosophy Department
Ferdinand_de_Saussure
Ancient Sanskrit grammarian
his De l'emploi du génitif absolu en sanscrit (On the Use of the Genitive Absolute in Sanskrit) published in 1881, he specifically mentions Panini as
Pāṇini
Medieval stage of the Greek language
which replaced the old future forms. Ancient formations like the genitive absolute, the accusative and infinitive and nearly all common participle constructions
Medieval_Greek
Non-finite verb form in Ancient Greek
accusative case; used with the article, it may be in any case (nominative, genitive, dative and accusative). (b) It shows morphological formation according
Infinitive_(Ancient_Greek)
Grammatical use indicating possession
of genitive. For example, the genitive construction "speed of the car" is equivalent to the possessive form "the car's speed". However, the genitive construction
Possessive
Greek long vowels written as diphthongs
Grammar Nouns Verbs Aorist Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory
Spurious_diphthong
Grammatical construction
adverbially with participles of impersonal verbs, similarly to the genitive absolute. For example: συνδόξαν sundóxan seeming good-ACC τῷ tôi the-MASC.DAT
Accusative_absolute
Ancient Greek ν appended to some grammatical forms
Grammar Nouns Verbs Aorist Subjunctive Optative Participle Infinitive Genitive absolute Conditional clauses Phonology Phonology Accent Movable nu Compensatory
Movable_nu
Morphological form of a noun
In Afro-Asiatic languages, the first noun in a genitive phrase that consists of a possessed noun followed by a possessor noun often takes on a special
Construct_state
Extinct Northwest Semitic language
principle be expressed in two ways: 1. “the house” (absolute state) “of the king” (absolute state, genitive). This might be called the ‘Latin’ way of expression
Ugaritic
Sounds and pronunciation of Ancient Greek
was dropped in Ancient Greek, as in ποίημα (from ποίηματ; compare the genitive singular ποιήματος). Other consonants may end a word, however, when a final
Ancient_Greek_phonology
Grammar of the Old Irish language
kill them.) Genitive and possessive modifiers of verbal nouns exhibit behaviour analogous with that of an ergative–absolutive language. Genitive modifiers
Old_Irish_grammar
Dargin language
(absolutive, ergative, dative, genitive) in addition to many spatial cases. Typical of Northeast Cauccasian languages, it displays ergative-absolutive
Sanzhi_language
Gelon Gelon of Laconia Gelos Geminus Gemon Generation of Animals Genitive absolute Genos Genus (music) Geocentric model Geography of the Odyssey Geometric
Index of ancient Greece-related articles
Index_of_ancient_Greece-related_articles
Part of Latin grammar
to one of these specific five patterns. For example, nouns that have a genitive singular form that ends in -ae are said to belong to "the first declension"
Latin_declension
Grammar of the Latin language
to guess the genitive of a noun from the nominative: dux "leader" has genitive ducis but rēx "king" has rēgis; pater "father" has genitive patris but iter
Latin_grammar
Grammatical case
of transitive verbs and possessors of nouns. This syncretism with the genitive is commonly referred to as the relative case. Nez Perce has a three-way
Ergative_case
Extinct Semitic language of Mesopotamia
The city's governor A genitive relation can also be expressed with the relative preposition ša, and the noun that the genitive phrase depends on appears
Akkadian_language
System of suffixes of Classical Arabic
in the written Arabic and are never pronounced with the ending -an. The genitive case (al-majrūr, ٱلْمَجْرُورُ) Objects of prepositions. Construct case:
ʾIʿrab
Grammatical case
In grammar, the absolutive case (abbreviated abs) is the case of nouns in ergative–absolutive languages that would generally be the subjects of intransitive
Absolutive_case
One of the six grammatical cases of nouns in Latin
adjective or genitive that expresses a quality that something has: vir summā virtūte "a gentleman of highest virtue". Ablative absolute describes the
Ablative_(Latin)
Inflection of words according to number, gender, and/or case
number (e.g. singular, dual, plural), case (e.g. nominative, accusative, genitive, or dative), gender (e.g. masculine, feminine, or neuter), and a number
Declension
Set of words within the Turkish language
The following are used after the genitive pronouns benim, bizim, senin, sizin, onun, and kimin, and after the absolute case of other pronouns and nouns:
Turkish_vocabulary
Grammar of the Modern Greek language
The merger of the dative and the genitive case. In Greek, indirect objects are expressed partly through genitive forms of nouns or pronouns, and partly
Modern_Greek_grammar
Extinct Italic language of central Italy
the genitive may either be functioning as a genitive of characteristic or as a partitive genitive. The objective genitive, in which the genitive functions
Umbrian_language
Northeast Caucasian language
rich case system. There are six non-spatial cases (Absolutive, Ergative, First Genitive, Second Genitive, Dative, Instrumental) as well as 35 spatial cases
Hinuq_language
Declensions in Hindi and Urdu
accusative, dative, genitive, and oblique). The oblique case in pronouns has three subdivisions: Regular, Ergative, and Genitive. There are eight case-marking
Hindustani_declension
Aspect of the Irish language
has five noun declensions, each with four cases (nominative, vocative, genitive, dative), and singular and plural forms. There are four classes of declension
Irish_declension
Feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages
Koine and Modern), this can be done by placing the compared noun in the genitive case. With superlatives, the population being considered may be explicitly
Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Degrees_of_comparison_of_adjectives_and_adverbs
Grammar of the Arabic language
aḍ-ḍamā’ir al-muttaṣilah) are used both as accusative and genitive forms of the pronouns. As genitive forms they appear in the following contexts: After the
Arabic_grammar
Grammar of the Romanian language
declensions have been reduced to only three forms (nominative/accusative, genitive/dative, and vocative) from the original six or seven. Another, that is
Romanian_grammar
English language during the Middle Ages
their genitive forms with -e or no ending (e.g., fole hoves, horses' hooves), and nouns of relationship ending in -er frequently have no genitive ending
Middle_English
Case specifying the use of the object form of pronouns
preposition (except in possessives): That picture of me was blurry. (cf. double genitive as in That picture of mine was stolen.) in copular deixis: [referring to
Oblique_case
the Dutch language, but few of them are productive. One exception is the genitive case, which is still productive to a certain extent. Although in the spoken
Archaic_Dutch_declension
Declination patterns for nouns in the Finnish language
that have two vowel stems, the weak vowel stem comes from the genitive singular. The genitive indicates possession. It is also used preceding postpositions
Finnish_noun_cases
Grammar of the Turkish language
dative and an anomalous genitive. All personal pronouns aside from onlar form their instrumental with the genitive form. The absolute case is generally needed
Turkish_grammar
Religious concept
hettema Romans 11:12). A further ambiguity arises when it is joined with a genitive, which may be either subjective or objective, the fullness which one thing
Pleroma
appears between the nominative and genitive cases. Nominal declension involves six main cases – nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental
Russian_grammar
Incipit used in Genesis 1:1
prepositional suffix) and rēʾšît (a noun). As a result, this forms part of a genitive phrase, leading to a linguistic and exegetical translation of this word
In_the_beginning_(phrase)
Grammatical case denoting "partialness", "without result" or "without specific identity"
used, since like in Finnish, the total object form coincides with the genitive in the singular, and the nominative in the plural. In many Estonian words
Partitive_case
Language syntax classification
contrary to typical ergative–absolutive languages insofar as they mark both agent and nominal attribute as genitive (ergative-genitive, the "b" marker). Examples
Milewski's_typology
Grammatical case
thereafter with some of its functions taken by the genitive and others by the dative. The genitive case with the prepositions ἀπό apó 'away from' and
Ablative_case
Grammatical relationship between arguments
with an ergative case (or sometimes an oblique case used also for the genitive or instrumental case roles) while the S argument of an intransitive verb
Morphosyntactic_alignment
Constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere
but to the idiosyncrasies of their color sensitivities. Capella has an absolute magnitude of 0.3 and a luminosity of 160 times the luminosity of the Sun
Auriga
Extinct ancient language of Mesopotamia
equative. In the absolutive singular, Suffixaufnahme would be meaningless, as the case and number are unmarked. When more than two genitives occur, they are
Hurrian_language
North Germanic language
inflected language with four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. Icelandic nouns can have one of three grammatical genders: masculine,
Icelandic_language
Declensions in the Gothic language
genitive case, which expresses possession, measurement, or source. The English possessive suffix enclitic "–'s" is derived from an earlier genitive case
Gothic_declension
Part of speech that defines a noun or pronoun
(as are native verbs), although nouns (an open class) may be used in the genitive to convey some adjectival meanings, and there is also the separate open
Adjective
Grammar of the Basque language
-gana, and ablative -gandik, affixed to either the possessive genitive or the absolutive: nigan 'in me', irakaslearengana 'to(wards) the teacher' (irakasle
Basque_grammar
Grammatical case indicating a location
Indo-European languages, the locative case merged into other cases (often genitive or dative) in form and/or function, but some daughter languages retained
Locative_case
Words in Kurukh that substitute for a noun or noun phrase
stem into a functional oblique base before case markers are added. The genitive system in Kurukh operates through a case-splitting pattern that changes
Pronouns_in_Kurukh
Declensions in the Lithuanian language
cases are: nominative (vardininkas); used to identify the inflection type genitive (kilmininkas); used to identify the inflection type dative (naudininkas)
Lithuanian_declension
Scientific study of the Romance languages
are predominantly of the head-first (right-branching) type. Adjectives, genitives and relative clauses all tend to follow their head noun, although (except
Romance_linguistics
Grammar of the Old Church Slavonic language
after five, and with certain pronouns, in the form of the partitive genitive. The genitive may be used as the complement of the 'verb to' to denote possession
Old_Church_Slavonic_grammar
Most widely spoken of all Sámi languages
accusative/genitive singular form. A noun in the comitative plural is preceded by a demonstrative in either the comitative or the accusative/genitive plural
Northern_Sámi
Grammar of standard Tibetian
deduced from the context. Tibetan nouns are marked for six cases: absolutive, agentive, genitive, ablative, associative and oblique. Particles are attached to
Modern_Lhasa_Tibetan_grammar
Process of word formation, by alteration to express grammatical categories
preceded by the separate words more and most, respectively – a non-inflected genitive construction). There are eight regular inflectional affixes in the English
Inflection
î[i], û[u], i[I], u[ʊ], ê[e], o[o], e[æ], a[ɑ]. A Kurdish noun in the absolute state, i.e. without any ending of any kind, gives a generic sense of the
Central_Kurdish_grammar
Proposed northern dialect of biblical Hebrew
typical of many Afroasiatic and especially Semitic languages, to indicate a genitive case relationship between nouns. In simple two-noun examples, the first
Israelian_Hebrew
Linguistic phenomenon whereby a language allows multiple cases suffixed on the same head
is a linguistic phenomenon used in forming a genitive construction, whereby prototypically a genitive noun agrees with its head noun. The term Suffixaufnahme
Suffixaufnahme
Great (genitive form) ΑΡΣΑΚΟΥ = Arsaces (genitive form) ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΟΥ = Euergetes, the Benefactor (genitive form) ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΟΣ = Autokratōr, absolute ruler
Royal formula of Parthian coinage
Royal_formula_of_Parthian_coinage
Northeast Caucasian language native to Russia
Chechen is an ergative, dependent-marking language using eight cases (absolutive, genitive, dative, ergative, allative, instrumental, locative and comparative)
Chechen_language
Theory in linguistic typology
separate in some paradigms; Irish also has a genitive and vocative case. In Punjabi, the accusative, genitive, and dative have merged to an oblique case
Case_hierarchy
Supreme legislative body of Sweden
Swedish use, riksdagen is usually not capitalised. Riksdag derives from the genitive of rike, referring to royal power, and dag, meaning diet or conference;
Riksdag
Grammar of the Swedish language
accusative and dative form) and genitive forms. Nouns make no distinction between subject and object forms, and the genitive is formed by adding -s to the
Swedish_grammar
Group of Celtic languages of Brittany, Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man
verb–subject–object word order, singular verbs with plural post-verbal subjects, a genitive construction similar to construct state, prepositions with fused inflected
Insular_Celtic_languages
Zodiac constellation straddling the celestial equator
magnitude 4.69 and an absolute magnitude 2.4. π Aquarii, also called Seat, is spectral type B0 with apparent magnitude 4.66 and absolute magnitude −4.1. Twelve
Aquarius_(constellation)
Type of language morphology
of friend friend will for I make birth day egg cake Meaning tomorrow I (genitive particle(='s)) friend will for I make birthday cake "Tomorrow my friend(s)
Synthetic_language
Northeast Caucasian language
the two genitive cases, the first is used as attribute to an absolutive head noun and the second to an oblique one. That means, that the Genitive 1 is used
Tsez_language
Language
nominative cases are identical. The genitive case, which expresses possession, measurement, or source. In English, the genitive case is represented analytically
Old_High_German_declension
a genitive noun phrase which would translate to "people's lord;" or a subject–verb phrase which would translate to "the people govern." The genitive-noun-phrase
Democracy_in_China
Grammatical structure
Indirect Object > Oblique > Genitive > Object of comparative Ergative–absolutive languages have a similar hierarchy: Absolutive > Ergative > Indirect Object
Relative_clause
Phonetic changes in the Old Irish language
shows apocope destroying a hiatus, leading to Step 3 being skipped. The genitive singular *skʷiyatos > *skʷiyaθah > *skʷeaθah > *skʷeaθ > *skʷeaθ > sciad
Phonological history of Old Irish
Phonological_history_of_Old_Irish
Cushitic language
'earth', lafti Genitive The genitive is used for possession or "belonging"; it corresponds roughly to English of or -'s. The genitive is usually formed
Oromo_language
Grammatical case
covers the roles of accusative, dative and objects of a preposition. The genitive case is then usually called the possessive form, rather than a noun case
Nominative_case
Grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb
The PIE accusative case has nearly eroded in Russian, merging with the genitive or the nominative in most declensions. Only singular first-declension nouns
Accusative_case
Grammatical case
case is typically formed by adding -ssa/-ssä. Estonian adds -s to the genitive stem. In Moksha -са (-sa) is added (in Erzya -со (-so)). In Hungarian,
Inessive_case
Hierarchical level in biological classification
the Prokaryotic Code, and the Code for Viruses) all require absolute ranks, but absolute ranks are not required in all nomenclatural systems—the PhyloCode
Taxonomic_rank
Declined according to case, state, gender and number
are declined according to the following properties: Case (nominative, genitive, and accusative) State (indefinite, definite or construct) Gender (masculine
Arabic_nouns_and_adjectives
Austronesian language spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia
to be no present-day politeness distinction. There are two classes of genitive pronouns in Moronene which must be learned by speakers, which is unique
Moronene_language
Eastern Iranian language of Ossetia, in the Caucasus
endings is the genitive case form. The 1st and 2nd persons plural have only one stem each, functioning as both nominative and genitive. The third person
Ossetian_language
Grammatical case
school, inside the building). In Estonian, the ending -l is added to the genitive case, e.g. laud (table) - laual (on the table). Besides the meaning "on"
Adessive_case
Grammatical usage debate
"quasi-substantive" adverb læs and the genitive worda ("less of words") (cf. plenty of words and *plenty words). When the genitive plural ceased to exist, less
Fewer_versus_less
Grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to which something is given
spite of), während (during), and wegen (because of) which require the genitive in modern formal language, are most commonly used with the dative in colloquial
Dative_case
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
Girl/Female
British, English
Thoughtful; Sensitive
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Sensitive
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Telugu
Tender; Sensitive
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Sensitive
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Sensitive
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh, Telugu
Soft Sensitive
Girl/Female
Tamil
Sensitive
Surname or Lastname
Italian
Italian : from the personal name Gentile, a continuation of Late Latin Gentilis meaning ‘of the same stock (Latin gens)’ and then ‘non-Christian’, ‘pagan’; as a medieval name it was an omen name with the sense ‘noble’, ‘courteous’, also ‘delicate’, ‘charming’, ‘graceful’ (Italian gentile). In some cases the surname may have arisen from a nickname, sometimes possibly ironical, from the same word.English : variant of Gentle.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Sensitive
Girl/Female
Tamil
Lajwanti | லாஜவநà¯à®¤à¯€
A sensitive plant
Lajwanti | லாஜவநà¯à®¤à¯€
Girl/Female
Hindu
Sensitive
Girl/Female
Hindu
A sensitive plant
Girl/Female
Indian
Sensitive
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Sensitive
Girl/Female
Celtic, German
Race of Women; White Wave
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Sensitive; Affectionate; Imaginative
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Sensitive
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Sensitive; Sentimental
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Sensitive
Girl/Female
Gaelic, German, Irish
Dark; Diminutive; Sensitive
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Servant of the Giver of Gains
Girl/Female
Tamil
Triparna | தà¯à®°à®¿à®ªà®°à¯à®¨à®¾
Leaf of sacred bael
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil
Poetry in Motion
Girl/Female
Danish, French, German, Latin, Swedish
Warlike; Dedicated to Mars; Female Version of Marcellus
Girl/Female
Greek
Muse of the flute.
Boy/Male
Indian
Symbol, Prince, Honored, Respected
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Name of a liberal woman of Baghdad who founded a religious school
Boy/Male
Tamil
Sivasankar | ஸிவாஸஂகர
Goddess Parvati
Boy/Male
English
Free friend; noble friend.
Girl/Female
Russian
Love of the people.
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
a.
Punitive.
a.
Possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb.
n.
The genitive case.
n.
A medicine or application that has the quality of easing pain or protecting from the action of irritants.
a.
Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive.
v. t.
Accountable; responsible; sensitive.
a.
Denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective.
a.
Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.
a.
Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.
a.
Sensitive; excitable; timid.
a.
Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.
a.
Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
a.
Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
n.
That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative.
a.
Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.
n.
The quality of being lenitive.
a.
Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.
n.
A mild purgative; a laxative.
n.
A lenitive; an emollient.
a.
Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive.