dative

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[102] Sallust might have said hujus imperii_, but he prefers the dative which is a dativus incommodi.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case that marks the recipient of action, that often indicates the indirect object of the verb, and that can be used with prepositions or other function words corresponding in meaning to English to and for.
  2. noun The dative case.
  3. noun A word or form in the dative case.

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  • This gives his Latin a whimsical inflection, whence the passive voice of his verbs masquerades oft as the dative of their participles. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
  • The accusative ending {-en} was sometimes extended to the dative, and the dative ending {-e} to the accusative. —  A Middle High German Primer Third Edition
  • Names of countries ending in {-lant} often have no ending in the dative, as {Engellant} beside {Engellande}, see §41. —  A Middle High German Primer Third Edition
  • The former mode is the more simple being sometimes found with the dative, and agrees better with what follows Footnote 196 According to the custom of the Lacedæmonians, of which Xenophon speaks de Repub. —  The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis
  • I take numeris as a dative; no close parallel presents itself, but compare Aen IV 239-40 'pedibus talaria nectit / aurea 33. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
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  1. Middle English datif, from Latin (cāsus) datīvus, (case) of giving (translation of Greek dotikē ptōsis), from datus, past participle of dare, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French datif = Provencal datiu = Spanish Portuguese Italian dativo = Dutch datief = G. Danish Swedish dativ, from Latin dativus, of or belonging to giving (in literally sense, apart from grammar, first in Late Latin); casus dativus (transitive Greek πτῶσις δοτική), or simply dativus, the dative case; from datus, past participle of dare, give: see date, date.
 

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