self-accusative
zə adjective
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noun
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an accusative case.
5.
a word in an accusative case.
6.
a form or construction of similar function.
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Self-accusative
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English (< Middle French) < Latin accūsātīvus, equivalent to ac- ac- + -cūsātīvus, combining form of causātīvus (see causative) a loan-translation of Greek aitiatikḗ, in the sense of pointing to the origin or cause, accusing)
1400–50; late Middle English (< Middle French) < Latin accūsātīvus, equivalent to ac- ac- + -cūsātīvus, combining form of causātīvus (see causative) a loan-translation of Greek aitiatikḗ, in the sense of pointing to the origin or cause, accusing)
Related forms
ac·cu·sa·tive·ly, adverb
self-ac·cu·sa·tive, adjective
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accusative (əˈkjuːzətɪv) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | grammar See also objective denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in inflected languages that is used to identify the direct object of a finite verb, of certain prepositions, and for certain other purposes |
| 2. | another word for accusatorial |
| —n | |
| 3. | grammar |
| a. the accusative case | |
| b. a word or speech element in the accusative case | |
| [C15: from Latin; in grammar, from the phrase cāsus accūsātīvus accusative case, a mistaken translation of Greek ptōsis aitiatikē the case indicating causation. See | |
| accusatival | |
| —adj | |
| ac'cusatively | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
accusative
case whose primary function is to express destination or goal of motion, mid-15c., from Anglo-Fr. accusatif, from O.Fr. acusatif, from L. casus accusativus "case of accusing," from accusatus, pp. of accusare (see accuse). Translating Gk. ptosis aitiatike "case of that which
is caused," on similarity of Gk. aitiasthai "accuse." Gk. aitia is the root of both, and means both "cause" and "accusation," hence the confusion of the Romans. A more correct translation would have been casus causativus.
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