Crossword clues for accusative
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, a. [F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See Accuse.]
Producing accusations; accusatory. ``This hath been a very accusative age.''
--Sir E. Dering.(Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.
Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, n. (Gram.) The accusative case.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grammatical case whose primary function is to express destination or goal of motion, mid-15c., from Anglo-French accusatif, Old French acusatif, or directly from Latin (casus) accusativus "(case) of accusing," from accusatus, past participle of accusare (see accuse).\n
\nTranslating Greek ptosis aitiatike "case of that which is caused," on similarity of Greek aitiasthai "accuse." Greek aitia is the root of both, and means both "cause" and "accusation," hence the confusion of the Romans. A more correct translation would have been casus causativus. Typically the case of the direct object, but also sometimes denoting "motion towards." Nouns and adjectives in French, Spanish, and Italian, languages from which English has borrowed heavily, generally were formed from the accusative case of a Latin word.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Producing accusations; accusatory; accusatorial; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame 2 (context grammar English) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate direct object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects. n. (context grammar English) The accusative case.
WordNet
adj. containing or expressing accusation; "an accusitive forefinger"; "black accusatory looks"; "accusive shoes and telltale trousers"- O.Henry; "his accusing glare" [syn: accusatory, accusing, accusive]
serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings" [syn: objective]
n. the category of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb [syn: accusative case, objective case]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "accusative".
Doctor Brooks to watch Cole closely, and the younger man to fix Magruder with an accusative glare.
Tolkien appears to be telling us that the distinct accusative forms were abandoned altogether.
Quenya that had a distinct accusative, we would presumably see the acc. sing.
In Lesson Five, we very briefly touched on another form of the noun the accusative case, which is the form a noun assumes when it is the object of a verb.
Phonologically, the older accusatives finí and súlú could have produced Exilic Quenya fini and súlu, still remaining distinct from nominative finë, súlo but Tolkien appears to be telling us that the distinct accusative forms were abandoned altogether.
If people were classified grammatically, you'd be in the accusative case!
Why, it is just like being the past tense of the compound reflexive adverbial incandescent hypodermic irregular accusative Noun of Multitude.