dativus

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dativus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaː.ti.vʏs/
• Hyphenation: da‧ti‧vus

Noun

dativus m (plural dativi or dativussen)

1. (grammar) the dative case or a word therein

Synonyms

• datief
• derde naamval

Latin

Etymology

From dō (“to give”) +‎ -īvus (adjective suffix), a calque of Ancient Greek δοτικός (dotikós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /daˈtiː.u̯us/, [d̪äˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /daˈti.vus/, [d̪äˈt̪iːvus]

Adjective

datīvus (feminine datīva, neuter datīvum); first/second-declension adjective

1. dative

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	datīvus	datīva	datīvum		datīvī	datīvae	datīva
Genitive	datīvī	datīvae	datīvī		datīvōrum	datīvārum	datīvōrum
Dative	datīvō		datīvō		datīvīs
Accusative	datīvum	datīvam	datīvum		datīvōs	datīvās	datīva
Ablative	datīvō	datīvā	datīvō		datīvīs
Vocative	datīve	datīva	datīvum		datīvī	datīvae	datīva

Descendants

• → Danish: dativ
• → Dutch: dativus
• → English: dative
• → German: Dativ
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: dativ
• Old Galician-Portuguese: dadiva
  • Portuguese: dádiva
• → Portuguese: dativo
• → Romanian: dativ
• → Serbo-Croatian: dátīv, да́тӣв
• → Spanish: dativo
• → Swedish: dativ

References

• “dativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dativus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• dativus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.