vocative.
Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
Meaning & usage
Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
Used in address; appellative; said of the case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective by which a person or thing is addressed.
In English, the vocative may be indicated by an addressee–address separation comma, or by the particle O, as in "What is the matter, sir?", "Mother, listen!", or "O Lord".
Where this word comes from
From Late Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Middle French vocatif, from Latin vocātīvus (“for calling”); a calque of Ancient Greek κλητῐκή (klētĭkḗ, “for calling; vocative case”) – from vocāre (“to call”), from Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-, o-grade of *wekʷ- (“give vocal utterance, speak”). See Latin vōx.
The vocative case
A word in the vocative case
A vocative expression
Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.
Where this word comes from
From Late Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Middle French vocatif, from Latin vocātīvus (“for calling”); a calque of Ancient Greek κλητῐκή (klētĭkḗ, “for calling; vocative case”) – from vocāre (“to call”), from Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-, o-grade of *wekʷ- (“give vocal utterance, speak”). See Latin vōx.
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