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accusative

adj
/əˈkjuːzətɪv/UK/əˈkjuzətɪv/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *kaussā Old Latin caussa Latin causa Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin accūsō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Ancient Greek αἰτῐᾱτῐκή (aitĭātĭkḗ)calq. Latin accūsātīvusder. Anglo-Norman accusatifbor. ▲ Latin accūsātīvusder. Middle French acusatifbor. ▲ Latin accūsātīvusbor. Middle English accusative English accusative First attested in the mid 15th century. From Middle English accusative, from Anglo-Norman accusatif or Middle French acusatif or from Latin accūsātīvus (“having been blamed”), from accūsō (“to blame”). Equivalent to accuse + -ative. The Latin form is a mistranslation of the Ancient Greek grammatical term αἰτιᾱτική (aitiātikḗ, “expressing an effect”). This term actually comes from αἰτιᾱτός (aitiātós, “caused”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, adjective suffix), but was reanalyzed as coming from αἰτιᾱ- (aitiā-), the stem of the verb αἰτιάομαι (aitiáomai, “to blame”), + -τῐκός (-tĭkós, verbal adjective suffix).

  1. derived from accūsātīvus — “having been blamed”
  2. derived from acusatif
  3. derived from accusatif
  4. inherited from accusative

Definitions

  1. Producing accusations

    Producing accusations; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame

    • This hath been a very accusative age.
    • The proprietor of the store was rude, insulting and accusative.

  2. Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which…

    Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate 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.

  3. The accusative case.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A word inflected in the accusative case.

      • There is some antecedent in old Latin; but as usual the influence is Greek too, for Greek prose and poetry freely use accusatives which are to some extent adverbial accusatives, or accusatives of respect.
      • Romani distinguishes dative and accusative pronouns formally and some Romani dialects use accusatives in constructions in which other languages employ a dative.

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Derived

accusatively, accusativeness, accusativity, nominoaccusative, nonaccusative, unaccusative, unaccusativity, accusative absolute, accusative cognate, adverbial accusative, cognate accusative, genitive-accusative

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA