Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case indicating a state of being or an existence in a particular capacity or state in some languages, as in Finnish professorina, “as a professor.”
- noun The essive case.
- noun A word or form in the essive case.
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- adjective grammar of, or relating to the
grammatical case that in somelanguages indicatesexistence in astate orcapacity - noun grammar the
essive case , or a word in that case
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Finnish essiivi, from New Latin essīvus : Latin esse, to be; see es- in Indo-European roots + Latin -īvus, -ive.]
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