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cognate accusative

noun
/ˈkɒɡneɪt əˈkjuːzətɪv/UK/ˈkɑɡˌneɪt əˈkjuzətɪv/US

Etymology

Calque of Latin accūsātīvus cognātus (“a cognate accusative”).

  1. derived from accūsātīvus cognātus — “a cognate accusative”

Definitions

  1. An object of kindred sense or derivation

    An object of kindred sense or derivation; specifically, that which may adverbially follow an intransitive verb (for example, the word death in “to die the death”).

    • These accusatives cognate are to be translated into English.
    • The extent of action of the verb may be expressed by a substantive of the same meaning as the verb, accompanied (usually) by an oblique adjectival predicate. (Cognate accusative.)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cognate accusative. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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