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The case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed
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vocative
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Word definitions for vocative in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vocative \Voc"a*tive\, n. [L. vocativus (sc. casus): cf. F. vocatif.] (Gram.) The vocative case.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed [syn: vocative case ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation. 2 (context grammar English) Used in address; appellative; — said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, ''Domine'', O Lord. n. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "showing the person or thing spoken to," from Middle French vocatif , from Latin vocativus (casus) "(case of) calling," from vocatus , past participle of vocare "to call" (see voice (n.)). The Latin is a translation of Greek kletike ptosis , ...
Usage examples of vocative.
As she felt the pro vocative flicker of his tongue across the puckered rose of her nipples a little moan of surprise and longing es caped her.
A scholarly reader wrote to point out that I had made this Goth use the nominative case where he should have used the vocative!