accusative

EnglishEdit

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accusative

EtymologyEdit

First attested in the mid 15th century. From Middle English accusative, from Anglo-Norman accusatif or Middle French acusatif or from Latin accūsātīvus (“having been blamed”), from accūsō (“to blame”). Equivalent to accuse +‎ -ative. The Latin form is a mistranslation of the Ancient Greek grammatical term αἰτιᾱτική (aitiātikḗ, “expressing an effect”). This term actually comes from αἰτιᾱτός (aitiātós, “caused”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ikós, adjective suffix), but was reanalyzed as coming from αἰτιᾱ- (aitiā-), the stem of the verb αἰτιάομαι (aitiáomai, “to blame”), + -τῐκός (-tikós, verbal adjective suffix).

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /əˈkjuːzətɪv/
(US) enPR: əkū'zətĭv, IPA^(key): /əˈkjuzətɪv/
Hyphenation: ac‧cusa‧tive
Audio (US) (file)

AdjectiveEdit

accusative (comparative more accusative, superlative most accusative)

Producing accusations; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame
Synonyms: accusatory, accusatorial
- 22 November, 1641, Edward Dering, a speech
  This hath been a very accusative age.
(grammar) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects.

TranslationsEdit

producing accusations; accusatory

Armenian: մեղադրական (hy) (meładrakan)
Catalan: acusatiu (ca)
Dutch: beschuldigend (nl)
Esperanto: akuza
Finnish: syyttävä (fi), syyttelevä
Hungarian: vádaskodó
Icelandic: ásakandi (is)
Japanese: 非難を表す (hinan wo arawasu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: anklagende
Portuguese: acusativo (pt), acusatório
Romanian: acuzator (ro), acuzativ (ro)
Russian: обвини́тельный (ru) (obvinítelʹnyj)
Spanish: acusativo (es)
Turkish: suçlayıcı
Welsh: cyhuddgar, cyhuddol

related to accusative case

Armenian: հայցական (hy) (haycʿakan)
Azerbaijani: təsirlik hal
Belarusian: вінава́льны (vinaválʹny)
Bulgarian: вини́телен (vinítelen)
Catalan: acusatiu (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 宾格 (zh), 第四格
Dutch: accusatief (nl)
Esperanto: akuzativa
Estonian: sihitav, akusatiiv (et)
Finnish: akkusatiivi- (fi)
French: accusatif (fr)
Georgian: ბრალდებითი (braldebiti)
German: Akkusativ- (de), akkusativisch (de)
Greek: αιτιατική (el) f (aitiatikí)
Ancient: αἰτιατική (aitiatikḗ)
Hungarian: tárgyeset ben lévő/álló
Icelandic: þolfalls- (is)
Irish: áinsíoch (ga), cuspóireach
Japanese: 対格の
Latin: accūsātīvus
Latvian: akuzatīvs (lv) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: akkusativisk

Nynorsk: akkusativisk
Old English: wrēġendlīċ
Polish: biernikowy (pl)
Portuguese: acusativo (pt)
Russian: вини́тельный (ru) (vinítelʹnyj)
Slovene: tožilniški
Spanish: acusativo (es)
Swedish: ackusativ (sv)
Turkish: belirtme (tr) (hâli/durumu), -i hâli (tr), aküzatif
Ukrainian: знахі́дний (uk) (znaxídnyj)
Welsh: gwrthrychol (cy)

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