Definition of Vocatives. Meaning of Vocatives. Synonyms of Vocatives

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Definition of Vocatives

Vocative
Vocative Voc"a*tive, n. [L. vocativus (sc. casus): cf. F. vocatif.] (Gram.) The vocative case.
Vocative
Vocative Voc"a*tive, a. [L. vocativus, fr. vocare to call.] Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling; specifically (Gram.), used in address; appellative; -- said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord.

Meaning of Vocatives from wikipedia

- languages, vocatives are marked morphologically with a particular grammatical case, the vocative case. English lacks a vocative case, but sets vocatives off...
- Virginia Hill: Vocatives. How Syntax meets with Pragmatics. Brill, Leiden 2014, ISBN 978-90-04-26079-5. Hill, Virginia. 2007. “Vocatives and the pragmatics–syntax...
- in a sentence, their form changes to one of the five cases (nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, or dative). The set of forms that a noun will take...
- languages. Czech has seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative and instrumental, partly inherited from Proto-Indo-European and...
- Tonantzin directly, men use the suffixed vocative form Tonāntziné [toˌnaːntsinˈé], and women use the unsuffixed vocative form Tonāntzín [tonaːnˈtsín]. Such...
- syncretism: For neuter nouns, the nominative, vocative, and accusative cases are identical. The nominative, vocative, and accusative plural almost always ends...
- engages the Addressee (receiver) directly and is best illustrated by vocatives and imperatives, e.g. "Tom! Come inside and eat!" The phatic function:...
- Kyrie, a transliteration of Gr**** Κύριε, vocative case of Κύριος (Kyrios), is a common name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy, also called the...
- of the Requiem M**** as a motet. The phrase means "pious Jesus" in the vocative. The settings of the Requiem M**** by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (H.234, H...
- vocative cases. The vocative case is now obsolete (but still used in certain regions[citation needed]) and the oblique case doubles as the vocative case...