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locative

/lok-uh-tiv/US // ˈlɒk ə tɪv //UK // (ˈlɒkətɪv) grammar //

地点性,地方性的,地方性,定位

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the locative case.
    • : a word in that case.

Examples

  • Even Montenegro was to some degree influenced by this process, having lost one or two cases, such as the locative.

  • Wude′ligûñ′yĭ—the west; literally “there where it (the sun) goes down” (w prefixed implies distance, yĭ, locative).

  • Kin or Cin, older cind, is really a survival of the old dative or locative of Gael.

  • In Latin the locative has been confused with the genitive and the ablative, and the instrumental with the ablative.

  • In one of his later papers, he argues that the origin of such subjective nominals is often, perhaps generally, locative.