Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In grammar, the letter or syllable added in inflected languages to the root or stem of a noun to indicate its case. See
case , n., 6.
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Examples
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Yet, there are increasing evidences of a tendency to discard this only remaining case-ending and to replace its powerful backbone with the comparatively limp and cartilaginous preposition.
A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick
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Some titles are included in which the grammatical relation is slightly different, but all admit the alternative of the case-ending
A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick
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The _apparent case-ending_ thus resulting is called
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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But in most cases the final vowel of the stem has coalesced so closely with the actual case-ending that the latter has become more or less obscured.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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This termination - um is not a contraction of - ārum, but represents an entirely different case-ending.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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Here the "s" is an old case-ending, an adverbial genitive.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890
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_Lue rue = luem ruem_, the last an old word for _ruinam_, with the case-ending lost, as frequently, and the copula omitted, as in _Patres Conscripti_, &c.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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Cambria "decline to endorse" the case-ending court order, according to its introductory page.
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_portam_ (Accusative Singular) is formed by adding the case-ending - m to the stem porta -.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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'jar' and 'cloth' -- both having the same case-ending -- can prove that these two things are one.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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