vocatif
French
noun
Definitions
- (grammar) vocative, vocative case
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French vocatif borrowed from Latin vocātīvus (for calling).
Origin
Latin
vocātīvus
Gloss
for calling
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- vocative English
- vocativus Latin
- vocātīvus Latin
- vocō Latin
- vocativo Italian
- vocativus Dutch, Flemish
- vocativo Spanish, Castilian
- *wekʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wokʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- vokativ Norwegian Bokmål
- vocativo Portuguese
- vokativ Danish
- vocativ Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- vokatīvs Latvian
- vokatif Turkish
- vocatif Middle French