genitive absolute

genitive absolute

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin genitivus absolutus.

Noun

genitive absolute (plural genitives absolute or genitive absolutes)

1. (grammar) an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present:
   1. in Ancient Greek, more frequent than the accusative absolute and the nominative absolute
   2. in Sanskrit later to the locative absolute
   3. in Avestan
   4. in Armenian
   5. in Tocharian, not so common
   6. in Middle Dutch and early modern Dutch
   7. rarely in Middle High German

Translations

independent genitive phrase

Dutch: genitivus absolutus m, absolute genitief (nl) m Finnish: absoluuttinen genetiivi French: please add this translation if you can German: Genitivus absolutus m

Latin: genitivus absolutus Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Bauer, Brigitte (2000) Archaic Syntax in Indo-European, Berlin, New York: Mouton De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 261–333