Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case expressing means, as Finnish puhumalla "by speaking, while speaking.”
- n. The adessive case.
- n. A word in the adessive case.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In grammar, a syntactic case expressing position at some spot or locality.
Wiktionary
- adj. grammar of or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates adjacent location.
- n. grammar the adessive case, or a word in that case.
Etymologies
- From Latin adesse, to be present : ad-, ad- + esse, to be. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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a case of cases
evoking a kind of heavy chest of drawers, for me. Latin (and German) at 11; now Finnish, and a fascination for what else is out there.
Entering all these, I did have to struggle not t...nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, vocative, locative, partitive, inessive, elative, illative, adessive and 62 more...
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now-positions
without prepping
for, to, from, toward, in, through, with, on, against, into, at, by and 48 more...
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linguistics = sexy
inchoative, semblitive, transitivity, deixis, indexical, adjunct, predicate, approximant, ejective, epenthesis, monophthong, pharyngealisation and 41 more...
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Finnish locative cases
ablative, allative, adessive, illative, elative, inessive, translative, essive, excessive
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