locative
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ə adjective
1.
(in certain inflected languages) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”
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| —adj | |
| 1. | (of a word or phrase) indicating place or direction |
| 2. | denoting a case of nouns, etc, that refers to the place at which the action described by the verb occurs |
| —n | |
| 3. | a. the locative case |
| b. a word or speech element in this case | |
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Locative
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Word Origin & History
locative
"grammatical case indicating place," 1804, from L. locus "place," on model of L. vocativus "vocative," from vocatus, pp. of vocare "to call, summon" (see voice).
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Example sentences
The temporal, locative, and agentive text strategies all bring cohesion and coherence into a text.
The locative is identical to the ablative in the fourth and fifth declension.
The locative, ablative, and dative are identical in the plural.
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