genitive

• Læm., where he dwells upon the advantages of friends fighting together, as rendering men ashamed of any cowardly action Footnote 219: This construction with the genitive is very common in Latin. —  The Iliad of Homer (1873)
• The word is derived from Venus (genitive--veneris), the Roman goddess of spring, flowers and Love There are three venereal diseases: gonorrhea, syphilis and chancroid. —  Woman Her Sex and Love Life
• I refer to the mistaken assumption that the ‘s’ of the genitive, as ‘the king’s countenance’, was merely a more rapid way of pronouncing ‘the king his countenance’, and that the final ‘s’ in ‘king’s’ was in fact an elided ‘his’. —  English Past and Present
• Yet this, which has only been elicited by the researches of recent scholars, does not in the least justify those who assumed that in the habitual ‘s’ of the genitive were to be found the remains of ‘his’--an error from which the books of scholars in the seventeenth, and in the early decades of the eighteenth, century are not a whit clearer than those of others. —  English Past and Present
• Footnote A: A conjunction is a word which connects words, parts of sentences, or sentences 35.» We learned from the table (§33) that the Latin nominative, genitive, and accusative correspond, in general, to the nominative, possessive, and objective in English, and that they are used in the same way. —  Latin for Beginners

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