vocative
adjEtymology
From Late Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Middle French vocatif, from Latin vocātīvus (“for calling”); a calque of Ancient Greek κλητῐκή (klētĭkḗ, “for calling; vocative case”) – from vocāre (“to call”), from Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-, o-grade of *wekʷ- (“give vocal utterance, speak”). See Latin vōx.
Definitions
Of or pertaining to calling
Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
Used in address
Used in address; appellative; said of the case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective by which a person or thing is addressed.
- In English, the vocative may be indicated by an addressee–address separation comma, or by the particle O, as in "What is the matter, sir?", "Mother, listen!", or "O Lord".
The vocative case
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A word in the vocative case
A vocative expression
Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing
Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.
- [T]he two latter will hardly come neither, if they think it will be to hear your whining vocatives.
The neighborhood
- neighborvocal
- neighborinterjection
- neighborvocative expressionsFiction essentials
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Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at vocative. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at vocative. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at vocative
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA