oblique case
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In all probability this is the station which appears in the Notitia Imperii as Longovico, an oblique case which it might be hazardous to put in the nominative, seeing that it seems rather to mean the town on the Lune or Loan than the Long Village.
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- any grammatical case other than the nominative
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Since that article was written, I have once more gone through the Hittite texts in the light of our newly-acquired facts, and have, I believe succeeded in making out the larger part of them As in the languages of Van, of Mitanni, and of Arzana, the Hittite noun possessed a nominative in -s_, an accusative in -n_, and an oblique case which terminated in a vowel, while the adjective followed the substantive, the same suffixes being attached to it as to the substantive with which it agreed.
— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 -
In all probability this is the station which appears in the Notitia Imperii as Longovico, an oblique case which it might be hazardous to put in the nominative, seeing that it seems rather to mean the town on the Lune or Loan than the Long Village.
— Science in Arcady -
It should be borne in mind that, should the subject of the infinitive be expressed, whenever the infinitive is transitive_, that subject may (and if the first verb is faire_, must) be put in the dative case, or in the oblique case with par_.
— Esther -
A Genitive or other oblique case regularly follows the word upon which it depends.
— New Latin Grammar -
-- ISTO: the use of the neuter pronoun in the oblique case as substantive is noticeable.
— Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes
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