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Etymology
From Latin genitus, the substantive form of genitalis meaning "pertaining to generation or birth", from the Greek genete, (birth).

Adjective
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1. Grammar Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.

Translations
trans-top|of or pertaining to the case of possession
Arabic: ARchar|اضا��|إض�ا��� IPAchar|(i�á�fi), ARchar|جر�|ج�ر��� (járri)
Bulgarian: �оди�елен (rodítelen)
Catalan: genitiu m, genitiva f
Czech: t-|cs|genitivní
Dutch: t-|nl|genitief|m
Finnish: genetiivi- (in compounds)
French: t-|fr|génitif|m, t-|fr|génitive|f
German: t-|de|genitivisch
Hebrew: ��ס �קנײ� (yakhas ha-knayn) m
Hungarian: t-|hu|birtokos
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Icelandic: eignarfall|eignarfalls- (in compounds)
Japanese: �格 (����, zokkakú), �格 (����, seikakú; for Slavic)
Latin: genetivus, genetiva, genetivum m/f/n
Portuguese: t-|pt|genitivo|m, t-|pt|genitiva|f
Russian: �оди�ел�н�й, �оди�ел�на�, �оди�ел�ное, �оди�ел�н�е (rodítel�nyj, rodítel�naja, rodítel�noje, rodítel�nyje) m/f/n/pl
Slovene: rodilniški m, rodilniška f, rodilniško n
Spanish: t-|es|genitivo|m, t-|es|genitiva|f
Swedish: t+|sv|genitiv
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Noun
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1. grammar uncountable The genitive case; the inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.
2. grammar countable A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.

Translations
trans-top|the genitive case
Arabic: ARchar|حا�ة ا��ضا� ا���|ح�ا�ة� ا���ض�ا�� إ����� IPAchar|(ħá�ltu l-mu�á�fi iléyh), ARchar|�جر�ر|��ج�ر��ر IPAchar|(madžrú�r)
Bosnian: t-|bs|genitiv|m
Bulgarian: �оди�елен падеж (rodítelen padéž) m
Catalan: genitiu m
Croatian: t-|hr|genitiv|m
Czech: t-|cs|genitiv|m, t-|cs|druhý pád|m
Danish: ejefald
Dutch: t-|nl|genitief|m, t-|nl|tweede naamval|m
Finnish: genetiivi, omanto (obsolete)
French: t-|fr|génitif|m
German: t-|de|Genitiv|m
Greek: t-|el|γενική|f|tryenikí|scGrek
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Hebrew: ��ס �קנײ� (yakhas ha-knayn) m
Hungarian: t-|hu|birtokos eset
Icelandic: t+|is|eignarfall|n
Latin: casus genetivus m
Latvian: ģenitīvs m
Portuguese: t-|pt|genitivo|m
Romanian: t-|ro|genitiv|n, t-|ro|caz genitiv|n
Russian: �оди�ел�н�й падеж (rodítel�nyj padéž) m
Slovak: t-|sk|druhý pád|m, t+|sk|genitív|m
Slovene: t+|sl|rodilnik|m
Spanish: t-|es|genitivo|m
Swedish: genitiv c or n
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trans-top|a word in the genitive inflection
Swedish: genitiv c or n
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Derived terms
Genitive absolute, a construction in Greek similar to the ablative absolute in Latin.

Romanian

Noun
ro-pl|genitiv|gend=n

1. genitives

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