How To Use Genitive In A Sentence
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If they fail to reproduce their kind, they have failed in their purpose; they are unconsciously ruled by the philoprogenitive passion; it is their raison d'etre, for it they are fed, clothed, trained, bred.
Captivity
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attributive: -s/-l directive: -is locative: -eBy renaming the genitive case as "attributive", we make it clearer that these endings are not just restricted to mere "possessives" or "ablatives" but rather we recognize their many other usages.
Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 2
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I could see his face, could see its changing passions, progenitive agony, frustration and delight.
THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
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We will also come back, by the same route, to the deep ontological ramifications of the so-called equative genitive (or genitive metaphor) in that line's second phrase: the breath of fresh air that is autumn, rather than the breath that issues from it, as one might say in common figure "the very breath of life.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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Surnames were frequently created out of the Latin genitive of some ancestor's given name.
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It should be a ditransitive verb, meaning that it takes two objects, one in the accusative and one in the genitive.
Archive 2008-03-01
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The word "philoprogenitive" and the French phrase stopped her.
Captivity
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That was the genitive singular ending on what are called masculine strong nouns.
The English Is Coming!
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'For the good Larth' would be more competently translated into Etruscan as either *Larθus mlac (genitive of giving) or *Larθe-ri mlac (locative with postposition -ri 'for').
A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement
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Unlike the Liber Linteus, where we find for example both postfixed accusative article -cn and -tn, we are supposed to believe that the Tabula Capuana shows a different grammatical pattern that has an odd bias towards the l-genitive of ta rather than ca.
Deictics on the Tabula Capuana
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All I can say for now on that item is that it appears to be marked in genitive -s and may more likely refer to either the situla itself or to the liquids to be poured from it.
Rhaetic inscriptions Schum PU 1 and Schum CE 1
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Third Declension which have a short penult in the Genitive; as, segĕs
New Latin Grammar
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As students of the language may recall, German has four cases - nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative - which see words change in order to explain their relationship to each other.
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These are interspersed with a number of philoprogenitive letters to Lady Clarke, -- her
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
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Whose serves as the genitive form for that and which.
Times, Sunday Times
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The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative; the genitive and dative endings are always the same.
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Meanwhile the Malays and Chinese had managed to build impressive civilisations without so much as a past tense, let alone a subjunctive, or genitive plural.
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'For the good Larth' would be more competently translated into Etruscan as either *Larθus mlac (genitive of giving) or *Larθe-ri mlac (locative with postposition -ri 'for').
A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement
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Find them, and give the reason.] [Footnote 2: When a noun is modified by both a genitive and an adjective, a favorite order of words is _adjective, genitive, noun_.] [Footnote 3: A modifying genitive often stands between a preposition and its object.] *****
Latin for Beginners
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Hendíadys (‛ εν δια δυοιν, _one through two_) is the use of two nouns joined by a conjunction, in the sense of a noun modified by a Genitive or an Adjective; as, -- febris et aestus, _the heat of fever_; celeritāte cursūque, _by swift running_.
New Latin Grammar
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Caroline@336: The locative is a weird case that doesn't fit into the usual scheme of 5, and is always identical in form to the genitive or accusative anyway.
Making Light: Open thread 135
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The genitive also expresses possession: ‘whose house is this?’
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In C.G. Darwin's words: "It may well be that it would take hundreds of generations for the progenitive instinct to develop in this way, but if it should do so, nature would have taken her revenge, and the variety Homo contracipiens would become extinct and would be replaced by the variety Homo progenitivus. [
Tragedy of the Commons (historical)
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The misanalysis I'm suggesting affects genitival constructs i.e. words derived by way of genitive case markers, such as Pre-IE adjectives.
Genitival Misanalysis
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The unspoken corollary is that societies need to be more reactionary: patriarchal, church-going, majoritarian, and philoprogenitive.
Times, Sunday Times
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This idea also explains the intrusive -i- in the word hinθial 'spirit, ghost, shade' derived from the genitive of hinθ 'below, beneath, underneath' which we may now relate to an earlier form *hinθi.
Archive 2007-09-01
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Why do some verbs take the genitive, not the accusative?
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Such instances are common in Arabic and one finds many examples in which an accusative of state occurs from a governed noun in the genitive.
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Why do some verbs take the genitive, not the accusative?
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Furthermore, the invasion of Spartina alterniflora may affect progenitive birds when it decreased insect diversity in Jiuduansha wetlands.
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The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative; the genitive and dative endings are always the same.
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There had always been a strongly domestic, philoprogenitive side to Soames; baulked and frustrated, it had hidden itself away, but now had crept out again in this his ‘prime of life.’
In Chancery
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The only noun inflexion preserved in Modern English is the possessive ending ‘s’ which is a survival of the common Germanic masculine singular genitive case ending.
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Or putting the adjectives in the genitive case, instead of the accusative, as in ‘I will take the chalice of salvation’?
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My spidey senses are telling me something disturbing though, that a noun that ends in a patientive suffix -aχ used to make derivative nouns from verbs, that uses an l-genitive normally given to feminines & neuters, and that is attested in the inessive three times screams like an inanimate object more than the term for a person.
Archive 2007-12-01
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[2] Bomhard/Kerns, The Nostratic macrofamily: A study in distant linguistic relationship (1994), p.161 (see link): Thus, in a consistent SOV language, an attributive adjective or a genitive precedes its 'head' noun, an adverb precedes its adjective or verb, a noun precedes its case ending or postposition, [...]
Etruscan syntactic inversion
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The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative.
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Classical Mongolian had seven cases, all clearly distinguished, in contrast to Latin: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, instrumental, and comitative.
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Gradually the apostrophe was adopted as a genitive marker too.
Times, Sunday Times
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Feminine contrasts with both masculine and neuter, not only in the nominative and accusative singular, but in the genitive and dative singular as well.
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The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative; the genitive and dative endings are always the same.
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I shall have occasion to notice the peculiar use of the genitive case and of genitival adjectives in worship later on.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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The word dementia comes from the Latin de meaning "apart" and mens from the genitive mentis meaning "mind".
Health News from Medical News Today
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It may be that “princeps” is intended, which would make principium genitive plural, as in the Horatian ode — “of princes.”
Cracking the Shakespeare Code - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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the genitive noun is used attributively
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These would include the nominative (for the subject of a sentence), the accusative (for its object) and the genitive (to indicate possession).
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With the genitive to be supplied: breác þonne môste, 1488; imp. brûc þisses beáges, _enjoy this ring, take this ring_, 1217.
Beowulf
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The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case.
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Of the six Indo-European cases capable of being governed by adpositions, the ablative and genitive singular were not distinguished outside of o-stems.
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Classical Mongolian had seven cases, all clearly distinguished, in contrast to Latin: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, instrumental, and comitative.
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_ «Mīlle», _a thousand_, in the singular is usually an indeclinable adjective (as, «mīlle mīlitēs», _a thousand soldiers_), but in the plural it is a declinable noun and takes the partitive genitive (as, «decem mīlia mīlitum», _ten thousand soldiers_).
Latin for Beginners
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Then there is the intellectual laugh, the love laugh, the horse laugh, the philoprogenitive laugh, the friendly laugh, and many other kinds of laugh, each indicative of corresponding mental developments.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
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The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case.
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So thank you, Mr. Callahan, for the lessons in the nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive cases.
Audrey Watters: Beyond Ratings: Teacher Evaluations Don't Tell The Whole Story
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And prenominal genitive determiner noun phrases are not adjectives, so to think that they can't be antecedents of pronouns for that reason is even madder than merely imagining that some obscure rule is being violated.
Language Log
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The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case.
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I've abandoned the idea that pul is a relative pronoun declined in the type-II genitive, which should probably have been written *pl if it were so, because it causes too many structural and semantic difficulties in this passage.
Etruscan syntactic inversion
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The phrase mihi (tibi, etc.) in mentem venit, following the analogy of meminī, takes the Genitive; as, -- mihi patriae veniēbat in mentem, _I remembered my country.
New Latin Grammar
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As students of the language may recall, German has four cases - nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative - which see words change in order to explain their relationship to each other.
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It is part of the spelling of the regular genitive plural suffix, as in a phrase like ‘several butchers' aprons’.
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But that would merely make two philoprogenitive maternal bores instead of one.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the gerund is a noun, then it must take a genitive possessor, because that’s how nouns work.
The prescriptivists’ untying of this Gordian Knot is flawed « Motivated Grammar
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Note: Despite all studies of philological possibilities, it still remains difficult to conceive the genitive novi et aterni testamenti as dependent upon the mysterium immediately following, which is already associated with a genitive [fidei]; whereas Paul-Luke combine the words sanguis [meus novi] testamenti into a unit, at least as to sense, and Matthew-Mark do so even in form.
Archive 2006-11-01
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As students of the language may recall, German has four cases - nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative - which see words change in order to explain their relationship to each other.
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Thus a spiritual gingham impressed upon his soul of souls a matrix, out of which, by a fine progenitive effort, he now begets and ejects a materialized gingham into a potato-plot of the garden without.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
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Write in columns the nominative singular, genitive plural, gender, and meaning of: - operibus, principe, imperatori, genere, apro, nivem, vires, frondi, muri.
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the genitive endings
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The genitive, dative, and accusative are called oblique cases to distinguish them from the nominative and vocative.
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The world shows that while women have more philoprogenitiveness, men have more amativeness; otherwise the latter would not propose and would nurse the doll and baby.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The unfortunate problem with Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetic (and probably too with Eteo-Cypriot and Eteo-Cretan) is that no personal endings appear to be attached to verbs in these languages despite the fact that many features like the 1ps and its oblique form (mi and mini), demonstratives and the declensional system (ie. the demonstrative accusative, s-genitive, animate and inanimate plural endings) all find direct connections to PIE.
Archive 2009-11-01
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In these two languages the loose genitive is more productive than in Finnish: it is the primary way of indicating possession in adnominal constructions.
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De Stancy had long since discovered that his chance lay chiefly in her recently acquired and fanciful predilection d'artiste for hoary mediaeval families with ancestors in alabaster and primogenitive renown.
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
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Verbs of _Condemning_ take -- a. The Genitive of the _charge_; as, -- pecūniae pūblicae condemnātus, _condemned (on the charge) of embezzlement_ (lit. _public money_); capitis damnātus, _condemned on a capital charge_ (lit. _on a charge involving his head_).
New Latin Grammar
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CAVERNOSA to rapidly dilate in such a way as to instantaneously facilitate the flow of blood to that part of the human anatomy known as the penis or male organ resulting in the phenomenon which has been denominated by the faculty a morbid upwards and outwards philoprogenitive erection IN ARTICULO MORTIS PER DIMINUTIONEM
Ulysses
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Whose serves as the genitive form for that and which.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since every regular noun has a genitive form, every trademark that has the form of a singular noun has a genitive form too.
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The fix is quite tricky, because Madame's people seem to've anticipated some kind of jiggery-pokery among the philoprogenitive.
The Golden Torc
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When possessive relationships are nested, all but the last element are construct and all but the first are genitive: ‘head horse-of the-man-of’.
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Attributive genitives are linked to the nouns they qualify by a system of connective particles.
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By firmly anchoring each woman's fate in Henry's failure to be philoprogenitive - most crucially in not producing male heirs - Fraser makes a major contribution to feminist scholarship.
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The Gauchos call the former the "Padre del sal," and the latter the "Madre;" they state that these progenitive salts always occur on the borders of the salinas, when the water begins to evaporate.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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Yet since the type-I genitive case (prototypically -as) is almost identical phonetically to this other case (prototypically -is), I find it odd that they didn't just merge considering that they would then also have almost identical semantics too!
Ipa ama hen
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Pronouns such as my are not adjectives either; they are pronouns, genitively inflected, functioning as determiners.
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Things might have turned out differently for Modern English if the genitive ending for another class of Old English noun had prevailed over the one taking an -s.
The English Is Coming!
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And force of fleshy sheep precocity, disease - resistant is strong, progenitive force tall, turnover is rapid.
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She knew what was meant to happen next and she wanted it, with a pure desire refined for thirty-five million years in the dark eye of every progenitive cell.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Find them, and give the reason.] [Footnote 2: When a noun is modified by both a genitive and an adjective, a favorite order of words is _adjective, genitive, noun_.] [Footnote 3: A modifying genitive often stands between a preposition and its object.] *****
Latin for Beginners
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And I haven't even explained case agglutination yet e.g. -clel from locative -cle plus genitive -l.
Enclitics and noun phrases in Etruscan
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When I was in the Moulay Abdullah I almost believed in this aspect of myself as a philo-progenitive fruiterer; St. John’s Wood and Mountrichard Castle seemed equally remote.
The Complete Stories
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And prenominal genitive determiner noun phrases are not adjectives, so to think that they can't be antecedents of pronouns for that reason is even madder than merely imagining that some obscure rule is being violated.
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Veron, Baret and Huloet-Higgins indicate the declensional patterns of nouns in Latin by providing the genitive singular form.
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Gradually the apostrophe was adopted as a genitive marker too.
Times, Sunday Times
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Year after year, his explanations of connecting vowels and genitives of nouns and declinable adjectives fell on deaf ears.
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A correlation is established and confirmed typologically, between denominative adjective and subject function, on the one hand, and adnominal genitive and the object function, on the other.
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Classical Mongolian had seven cases: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, instrumental, and comitative.
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Genitive — Mein es gut en Freund es , of my good friend.
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The case studies investigated include the alternation between synthetic and analytic comparatives, between the s-genitive and the of-genitive, between gerundial and infinitival complementation, particle placement, and future marker choice in a number of corpora sampling different spoken registers and geographical varieties of English.
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I have to admit that Victoria and Albert, on the one hand, and the Bunker brothers, on the other, were pretty philoprogenitive.
Gibbon Chapter XIX
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If the adnominal genitive in the abbreviated sentence corresponds to the object in the full sentence, it is referred to as an objective genitive.
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It enables the reader to tell apart a plural and a genitive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Second Book rendering _salis avarus_ by _de sal avariento_ -- the second person singular of the present indicative of the verb _salire_ being mistaken for the genitive of the substantive _sal_ [271] -- we may perhaps conclude that a boyish exercise has somehow escaped destruction.
Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
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Sorry to be a pedantic dick about it, but the real fake genitive plural of "Elvis" is "Elvum".
Boing Boing: April 3, 2005 - April 9, 2005 Archives
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Nothing else has evidently happened but that, through the oscitancy of some very early scribe, the [Greek: IskariôTÊN], [Greek: IskariôTÊ], have been attracted into concord with the immediately preceding genitive
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
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Furthermore, the invasion of Spartina alterniflora may affect progenitive birds when it decreased insect diversity in Jiuduansha wetlands.
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With the genitive to be supplied: brēac þonne mōste, 1488; imp. brūc þisses bēages, _enjoy this ring, take this ring_, 1217.
Beowulf
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The misanalysis I'm suggesting affects genitival constructs i.e. words derived by way of genitive case markers, such as Pre-IE adjectives.
Genitival Misanalysis
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The genitive similarly used for the cause of indebtedness at i 2 _'debitor_ est _uitae_ qui tibi, Sexte, suae 'and
The Last Poems of Ovid
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an example of the attributive genitive is `John's' in `John's mother'
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Finally, the genitive here is strongly supported by _Ibis_ 475-76 'ut Macedo rapidis icta est cum coniuge flammis,/sic precor _aetherii uindicis_ igne cadas'.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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Actually, today, the possessive and genitive are virtually the same.
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Bi" is the original particle of swearing, a Harf al-jarr (governing the genitive as Bi'lláhi) and suggesting the idea of adhesion: "Wa" (noting union) is its substitute in oath-formulæ and "Ta" takes the place of Wa as
Arabian nights. English
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These Genitives accent the penult, even when it is short.
New Latin Grammar
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The genitive is NOT used as an agentive, despite unfortunately being claimed by many without clear proof.
Ipa ama hen
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Mention one example each of verbs followed by the nominative, the accusative, the genitive, the dative, the ablative.
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The waxen pellet which packed the powder hit him smartly on the philoprogenitive bump, and he swore audibly.
The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography
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For instance, Q. might choose to suggest we refer to qim and to qer posts using the nominative qe, the accusative qim and the genitive qer.
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Passed off as the 15th child of his philoprogenitive grandparents, he seems never to have known the true story of his birth.
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It enables the reader to tell apart a plural and a genitive.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gerundive is a verbal adjective and must be used instead of gerund + object, excepting in the genitive and in the ablative without a preposition.
Latin for Beginners
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The unfortunate problem with Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetic (and probably too with Eteo-Cypriot and Eteo-Cretan) is that no personal endings appear to be attached to verbs in these languages despite the fact that many features like the 1ps and its oblique form (mi and mini), demonstratives and the declensional system (ie. the demonstrative accusative, s-genitive, animate and inanimate plural endings) all find direct connections to PIE.
A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan
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The Gauchos call the former the Padre del sal, and the latter the Madre; they state that these progenitive salts always occur on the borders of the salinas, when the water begins to evaporate.
Chapter IV
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“In C.G. Darwin's words "It may well be that it would take hundreds of generations for the progenitive instinct to develop in this way, but if it should do so, nature would have taken her revenge, and the variety Homo contracipiens would become extinct and would be replaced by the variety Homo progenitivus.
Part 3--An examination of the Tragedy of the Commons: freedom to breed
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There are five declensional types in Latin, that are recognized by their terminations in genitive singular.
