Wordwyrt

genitive

Meaningrelating to birth or origin

Common meaning: grammatical case often expressing possession

Journey through time

  1. Latingenitivus‘relating to birth or origin’source
  2. Old Frenchmeaning shiftsrelating to birth or origin → grammatical casegenitif‘grammatical case’source
  3. Englishgenitive‘grammatical case often expressing possession’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin genitivus ‘relating to birth or origin’.

Roots

  • genitivus Latin “relating to birth or origin”

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